Word Meanings - SHUFFLING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Moving with a dragging, scraping step. "A shuffling nag." Shak. 2. Evasive; as, a shuffling excuse. T. Burnet.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SHUFFLING)

• Paltry
• Mean
• shabby
• shuffling
• trifling
• prevaricating
• shifty
• contemptible
• pitiable
• vi e
• worthless
• beggarly
• trashy
• Slippery
• Smooth
• glassy
• lubricated
• insecure
• perilous
• unsafe
• unstable
• elusive
• unprincipled
• deceptive
• evasive
• untrustworthy
• uncertain

Related words: (words related to SHUFFLING)

• SMOOTHEN
  To make smooth.
• PERILOUS
  1. Full of, attended with, or involving, peril; dangerous; hazardous; as, a perilous undertaking. Infamous hills, and sandy, perilous wilds. Milton. 2. Daring; reckless; dangerous. Latimer. For I am perilous with knife in hand. Chaucer.
• SMOOTHNESS
  Quality or state of being smooth.
• SMOOTH
  1. The act of making smooth; a stroke which smooths. Thackeray. 2. That which is smooth; the smooth part of anything. "The smooth of his neck." Gen. xxvii. 16.
• BEGGARLY
  1. In the condition of, or like, a beggar; suitable for a beggar; extremely indigent; poverty-stricken; mean; poor; contemptible. "A bankrupt, beggarly fellow." South. "A beggarly fellowship." Swift. "Beggarly elements." Gal. iv. 9. 2. Produced
• PREVARICATOR
  A sham dealer; one who colludes with a defendant in a sham prosecution. 3. One who betrays or abuses a trust. Prynne. (more info) 1. One who prevaricates.
• SMOOTH-CHINNED
  Having a smooth chin; beardless. Drayton.
• UNCERTAINTY
  1. The quality or state of being uncertain. 2. That which is uncertain; something unknown. Our shepherd's case is every man's case that quits a moral certainty for an uncertainty. L'Estrange.
• ELUSIVE
  Tending to elude; using arts or deception to escape; adroitly escaping or evading; eluding the grasp; fallacious. Elusive of the bridal day, she gives Fond hopes to all, and all with hopes deceives. Pope. -- E*lu"sive*ly, adv. -- E*lu"sive*ness, n.
• TRASHY
  Like trash; containing much trash; waste; rejected; worthless; useless; as, a trashy novel.
• SMOOTHLY
  In a smooth manner.
• CONTEMPTIBLENESS
  The state or quality of being contemptible, or of being despised.
• TRIFLE
  trifle, probably the same word as F. truffe truffle, the word being 1. A thing of very little value or importance; a paltry, or trivial, affair. With such poor trifles playing. Drayton. Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmation strong
• SHUFFLE
  1. The act of shuffling; a mixing confusedly; a slovenly, dragging motion. The unguided agitation and rude shuffles of matter. Bentley. 2. A trick; an artifice; an evasion. The gifts of nature are beyond all shame and shuffles. L'Estrange.
• UNCERTAINLY
  In an uncertain manner.
• TRIFLORAL; TRIFLOROUS
  Three-flowered; having or bearing three flowers; as, a triflorous peduncle.
• TRIFLING
  Being of small value or importance; trivial; paltry; as, a trifling debt; a trifling affair. -- Tri"fling*ly, adv. -- Tri"fling*ness, n.
• SMOOTH-SPOKEN
  Speaking smoothly; plausible; flattering; smooth-tongued.
• TRIFLER
  One who trifles. Waterland.
• SMOOTHER
  One who, or that which, smooths.
• DELUSIVE
  Apt or fitted to delude; tending to mislead the mind; deceptive; beguiling; delusory; as, delusive arts; a delusive dream. Delusive and unsubstantial ideas. Whewell. -- De*lu"sive*ly, adv. -- De*lu"sive*ness, n.
• TRIFLUCTUATION
  A concurrence of three waves. "A trifluctuation of evils." Sir T. Browne.