Hobble

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–verb (used without object) 

1. to walk lamely; limp. 

2. to proceed irregularly and haltingly: His verses hobble with their faulty meters.  



–verb (used with object) 

3. to cause to limp: His tight shoes hobbled him. 

4. to fasten together the legs of (a horse, mule, etc.) by short lengths of rope to prevent free motion.

5. to impede; hamper the progress of. 



–noun 

6. an act of hobbling; an uneven, halting gait; a limp.

7. a rope, strap, etc., used to hobble an animal.

8. hobbles, a leg harness for controlling the gait of a pacer.

9. Archaic. an awkward or difficult situation. 





　

There's nary a moment that Brad Pitt isn't entirely believable as the humble traveler at the center of the film -- whether he's hobbling along as an adolescent septuagenarian early on, or turning up as a fresh-faced teen later in life.



septuagenarian

–adjective 

1. of the age 

of 

70 years or between 70 and 80 years old. 





wobble

show unsteadiness, quaver, vacillate

The [table] wobbled on its uneven legs.

His [voice] wobbled.

lurch

The truck lurched [sideways]

Dressed in tinfoil and [lurching] like Frankenstein's monster

But it [lurches] all over the map, encompassing dialogue both inspired and juvenile-tasteless.

shamble(s)

It stars Jack Black as Jerry, a [shambling], logorrheic loser who lives in a trailer 

Brendan Gleeson, with that noble shamble[s] of a face and the [heft] of a boxer gone to seed

amble

Day-Lewis—an [ambling] scarecrow under [boater] and [musty] cloth coat—is as rooted as an [oak] in his character and milieu

Tati's signature comic character [ambled] into movies with Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (1953), his second film.

The moral, emotional, and dramatic issues are settled, and then the movie, [reverently] chronicling Christine’s [apotheosis], ambles [on] for another forty minutes.

Later, Ethan Hawke [ambles] on set as a happy hippie, a cabinet maker who argues unconvincingly for the nonconformist life.

doodle 

He doodled during the whole [lecture].  

ramble

They rambled through the shops [until] closing time. 

The [vine] rambled over the walls and tree trunks. 

The speaker/writer rambled [on] with anecdote after anecdote. 

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