Shuffling

/ˈʃʌfl̩ɪŋ/ · verb

Meaning

present participle and gerund of shuffle.

Definitions by Sense

1. present participle and gerund of shuffle
2. The act or motion of one who shuffles.
3. The noise created by something moving about.
4. (dated) Trickery.
5. Moving with a dragging, scraping step.
6. Evasive.

Example Sentences

As I lay waiting I could hear a sort of murmurousness beyond the door. It seemed composed of whimperings, slitherings, and shufflings, punctuated occasionally by a raised voice in the distance.

Jane Gibson taught the cast the movements of the various creatures they were representing: the linear shufflings of the hedgehogs, the dozy lollopings of the rabbits, the sinuous dartings of the weasel and so on.

He would also have been exposed to the coughings and shufflings, comings and goings, questions and answers, wailings and slammings, snivellings and sneezings, etc., which figured so prominently in the reference room […]

Then he warmed to it, and smoothly set out all his shifts, malices, and treacheries, his extreme boldnesses (he was desperate bold); his retreats, shufflings, and counterfeitings (he was also inconceivably a coward) […]

This world I do renounce, and in your sights / Shake patiently my great affliction off.

a shuffling excuse

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Antonyms for shuffling

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Word Forms

• shufflings
• more shuffling
• most shuffling

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