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Definition
a condition of great disorder
- The bloodboltered shambles in act five is a forecast of the concentration camp sung by Mr Swinburne.Episode 9 — Scylla And Charybdis (11% in)
- Calling encouraging words he shambles back with a furtive poacher's tread, dogged by the setter into a dark stalestunk corner.Episode 15 — Circe (13% in)
There are no more uses of "shambles" in Ulysses by James Joyce.
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