shuffling

CIDE DICTIONARY

shuffling, a. 

•  Moving with a dragging, scraping step.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]
•  Evasive; as, a shuffling excuse.  T. Burnet.  [1913 Webster]

shuffling, v. 

 In a shuffling manner.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

shuffling

Micawberish, adrift, afloat, alternating, alternation, ambling, amorphous, backward, bickering, boggling, capricious, captious, captiousness, cautious, caviling, changeable, changeful, chicane, chicanery, choplogic, circumspect, claudicant, convulsion, crawling, creeping, creeping like snail, dallying, delaying, deliberate, derangement, desultory, deviable, dilatory, dillydallying, disarrangement, discomposure, dislocation, disorder, disorganization, disturbance, dizzy, dodging, easy, easygoing, eccentric, equivocating, equivocation, equivocatory, erratic, evasion, evasive, faltering, fast and loose, fencing, fickle, fitful, flagging, flickering, flighty, flitting, fluctuating, fluctuation, foot-dragging, freakish, gentle, giddy, gradual, hairsplitting, halting, hedging, hobbled, hobbling, idle, impetuous, impulsive, inconsistent, inconstant, indecisive, indolent, infirm, insanity, irregular, irresolute, irresponsible, lackadaisical, laggard, lagging, languid, languorous, lax, lazy, leisurely, limping, lingering, logic-chopping, loitering, lumbering, mazy, mercurial, misarrangement, moderate, moody, nit-picking, oscillation, paltering, parrying, pendulation, perturbation, pettifoggery, petty, picayune, poking, poky, prevarication, procrastinating, procrastinative, procrastinatory, pussyfooting, quibbling, rambling, relaxed, reluctant, remiss, restless, roving, sauntering, scatterbrained, seesawing, shapeless, shifting, shifty, sidestepping, slack, slothful, slow, slow as death, slow as molasses, slow as slow, slow-crawling, slow-foot, slow-going, slow-legged, slow-moving, slow-paced, slow-poky, slow-running, slow-sailing, slow-stepped, sluggish, snail-paced, snaillike, spasmodic, spineless, staggering, strolling, subterfuge, teeter-tottering, teetering, tentative, tergiversation, toddling, tortoiselike, tottering, trichoschistic, trichoschistism, trifling, trivial, trudging, turtlelike, unaccountable, uncertain, uncontrolled, undependable, undisciplined, unfixed, unhurried, unpredictable, unreliable, unrestrained, unsettled, unstable, unstable as water, unstaid, unsteadfast, unsteady, vacillating, vacillation, vagrant, variable, variation, vicissitude, vicissitudinary, vicissitudinous, volatile, waddling, wandering, wanton, wavering, wavery, wavy, wayward, whimsical, wishy-washy

ROGET THESAURUS

shuffling

Derangement

N derangement, disorder, evection, discomposure, disturbance, disorganization, deorganization, dislocation, perturbation, interruption, shuffling, inversion, corrugation, involvement, interchange, deranged, syncretic, syncretistic, mussy, messy, flaky, random, unordered.

Interchange

N interchange, exchange, commutation, permutation, intermutation, reciprocation, transposition, rearrangement, shuffling, alternation, reciprocity, castling (at chess), hocus-pocus, interchangeableness, interchangeability, recombination, combination, barter, tit for tat, cross fire, battledore and shuttlecock, quid pro quo, interchanged, reciprocal, mutual, commutative, interchangeable, intercurrent, combinatorial, recombinant, in exchange, vice versa, mutatis mutandis, backwards and forwards, by turns, turn and turn about, each in his turn, everyone in his turn.

Improbity

N improbity, dishonesty, dishonor, deviation from rectitude, disgrace, fraud, lying, bad faith, Punic faith, mala fides, Punica fides, infidelity, faithlessness, Judas kiss, betrayal, breach of promise, breach of trust, breach of faith, prodition, disloyalty, treason, high treason, apostasy, nonobservance, shabbiness, villainy, villany, baseness, abjection, debasement, turpitude, moral turpitude, laxity, trimming, shuffling, perfidy, perfidiousness, treachery, double dealing, unfairness, knavery, roguery, rascality, foul play, jobbing, jobbery, graft, bribery, venality, nepotism, corruption, job, shuffle, fishy transaction, barratry, sharp practice, heads I win tails you lose, mouth honor, dishonest, dishonorable, unconscientious, unscrupulous, fraudulent, knavish, disgraceful, wicked, false-hearted, disingenuous, unfair, one-sided, double, double- hearted, double-tongued, double-faced, timeserving, crooked, tortuous, insidious, Machiavelian, dark, slippery, fishy, perfidious, treacherous, perjured, infamous, arrant, foul, base, vile, ignominious, blackguard, contemptible, unrespectable, abject, mean, shabby, little, paltry, dirty, scurvy, scabby, sneaking, groveling, scrubby, rascally, pettifogging, beneath one, low-minded, low-thoughted, base-minded, undignified, indign, unbecoming, unbeseeming, unbefitting, derogatory, degrading, infra dignitatem, beneath one's dignity, ungentlemanly, ungentlemanlike, unknightly, unchivalric, unmanly, unhandsome, recreant, inglorious, corrupt, venal, debased, mongrel, faithless, of bad faith, false, unfaithful, disloyal, untrustworthy, trustless, trothless, lost to shame, dead to honor, barratrous, dishonestly, mala fide, like a thief in the night, by crooked paths, Int, O tempora!, O mores!, corruptissima respublica plurimae leges.

Agitation

N agitation, stir, tremor, shake, ripple, jog, jolt, jar, jerk, shock, succussion, trepidation, quiver, quaver, dance, jactitation, quassation, shuffling, twitter, flicker, flutter, turbulence, perturbation, commotion, turmoil, disquiet, tumult, tumultuation, hubbub, rout, bustle, fuss, racket, subsultus, staggers, megrims, epilepsy, fits, carphology, chorea, floccillation, the jerks, St. Vitus's dance, tilmus, spasm, throe, throb, palpitation, convulsion, disturbance, chaos, restlessness, ferment, fermentation, ebullition, effervescence, hurly-burly, cahotage, tempest, storm, ground swell, heavy sea, whirlpool, vortex, whirlwind, shaking, agitated tremulous, desultory, subsultory, saltatoric, quasative, shambling, giddy-paced, saltatory, convulsive, unquiet, restless, all of a twitter, by fits and starts, subsultorily, per saltum, hop skip and jump, in convulsions, in fits, tempete dans un verre d'eau.

Falsehood

N falsehood, falseness, falsity, falsification, deception, untruth, guile, lying, untruth, guile, lying, misrepresentation, mendacity, perjury, false swearing, forgery, invention, fabrication, subreption, covin, perversion of truth, suppression of truth, suppressio veri, perversion, distortion, false coloring, exaggeration, prevarication, equivocation, shuffling, fencing, evasion, fraud, suggestio falsi, mystification, simulation, dissimulation, dissembling, deceit, blague, sham, pretense, pretending, malingering, lip homage, lip service, mouth honor, hollowness, mere show, mere outside, duplicity, double dealing, insincerity, hypocrisy, cant, humbug, jesuitism, jesuitry, pharisaism, Machiavelism, organized hypocrisy, crocodile tears, mealy-mouthedness, quackery, charlatanism, charlatanry, gammon, bun-kum, bumcombe, flam, bam, flimflam, cajolery, flattery, Judas kiss, perfidy, il volto sciolto i pensieri stretti, unfairness, artfulness, misstatement, false, deceitful, mendacious, unveracious, fraudulent, dishonest, faithless, truthless, trothless, unfair, uncandid, hollow-hearted, evasive, uningenuous, disingenuous, hollow, sincere, Parthis mendacior, forsworn, artificial, contrived, canting, hypocritical, jesuitical, pharisaical, tartuffish, Machiavelian, double, double tongued, double faced, double handed, double minded, double hearted, double dealing, Janus faced, smooth-faced, smooth spoken, smooth tongued, plausible, mealy-mouthed, affected, collusive, collusory, artful, perfidious, spurious, untrue, falsified, covinous, falsely, a la tartufe, with a double tongue, silly, blandae mendacia lingua, falsus in uno falsus in omnibus, I give him joy that's awkward at a lie, la mentira tiene las piernas cortas, O what a goodly outside falsehood hath.