shambolic

Modifies a noun

• mess: Let's take the shambolic mess of a review that Premier magazine cobbled together.
• handling: Defra's shambolic handling of single farm payments in England has caused many farmers to suffer grave economic hardship.
• state: Either way you would think that we should have the right to find out more about how we got to the current shambolic state.
• performance: Gary Naylor titters: " Can I be the first to excuse England's shambolic performance on the grounds that it is rather hot?
• chateau: Poor katy, spending her weekend with zombies in a shambolic chateau!
• way: Bob Crow has called for a public inquiry to " look into the shambolic way in which infrastructure maintenance is organized.

Modifying Another Word

• slightly: But I guess it's only fair to expect a show based on a shambolic life would itself be ever so slightly shambolic itself.
• rather: He also stages a rather shambolic puppet show where the principals have been replaced by emptying bottles of booze.
• utterly: Utterly shambolic twee garage from people old enough to know better.
• fairly: The only big performance anxiety dream I recall was when I was backstage in a production of Carousel which looked fairly shambolic to me.
• truly: It's truly shambolic say many dentists referring to the recent overhaul of the NHS dental service.
• often: During this dispute I have had to negotiate with a disunited employerâs side in often shambolic circumstances.