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shambolic adjective [ ʃamˈbɒlɪk ]

• chaotic, disorganized, or mismanaged.
• "the department's shambolic accounting"
Similar: chaotic, disorganized, muddled, confused, in (total) disarray, at sixes and sevens, unsystematic, haphazard, hit-or-miss, scrappy, fragmented, inefficient, all over the place, all over the shop, all over the map, all over the lot,
Opposite: efficient, organized,
Origin: 1970s: from shambles, probably on the pattern of symbolic .


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