shambolic
(UK, Irish, Commonwealth) Chaotic, disorganised or mismanaged.
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How stupid does the Trump administration think the American people are? Knuckle dragging level stupidity. Meaning equal to the shambolic press currently covering this administration.
Dudes in the absolute least laudatory way imaginable, like just a shambolic ‘christ dudes, wtf’.
He's a shambolic, traitorous, hulking beast. I hate him.
“I just now realized how corrupt this state is… they’re also cowards.” Tennesseans at the legislature for the first time just watched the shambolic Lamberth-presided *rules* committee — as Republicans move to strip…
“WHOSE STATE? OUR STATE!” Tennesseans sing the national anthem and @OdessaKelly leads a protest after a shambolic rules committee starts a dark week of Black voter disenfranchisement in Tennessee
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(UK, Irish, Commonwealth) Chaotic, disorganised or mismanaged.
“How stupid does the Trump administration think the American people are? Knuckle dragging level stupidity. Meaning equal to the shambolic press currently covering this administration.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Dudes in the absolute least laudatory way imaginable, like just a shambolic ‘christ dudes, wtf’.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“He's a shambolic, traitorous, hulking beast. I hate him.”
— Bluesky· May 2026““I just now realized how corrupt this state is… they’re also cowards.” Tennesseans at the legislature for the first time just watched the shambolic Lamberth-presided *rules* committee — as Republicans move to strip representation from majority Black MEMPHIS🎪”
— Bluesky· May 2026““WHOSE STATE? OUR STATE!” Tennesseans sing the national anthem and @OdessaKelly leads a protest after a shambolic rules committee starts a dark week of Black voter disenfranchisement in Tennessee”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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(UK, informal, rare) Being or relating to an omnishambles; utterly mismanaged.
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(UK, informal, chiefly, politics) A situation that is bad or mismanaged in every way.
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(UK, US, colloquial, dated) Shaky, rickety, ramshackle.
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(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) and unreliable.
- shamesome64%
(mostly, Ireland, dialect) Deserving of shame; shameful.