All 4 Uses of
shambles
in
Arrowsmith
- His mind was a shambles.†
Chpt 9 *
- He meditated that if science and public hygiene did remove tuberculosis and the other major plagues, the world was grimly certain to become so overcrowded, to become such a universal slavepacked shambles, that all beauty and ease and wisdom would disappear in a famine-driven scamper for existence.†
Chpt 12
- Martin and Leora came into a shambles of salutations and daughters.†
Chpt 19
- So Max Gottlieb took charge of the McGurk Institute of Biology, and in a month that Institute became a shambles.†
Chpt 30
Definition:
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(shambles as in: the place is a shambles) a condition of great disorder