Synonyms for shambles
sham·bles

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1. shamblesnoun

   a condition of great disorder

   Synonyms:
   slaughterhouse, abattoir, butchery

2. abattoir, butchery, shambles, slaughterhousenoun

   a building where animals are butchered

   Synonyms:
   butchery, mass murder, butchering, carnage, slaughterhouse, slaughter, massacre, abattoir

Matched Categories

1. • Building
   • Disorderliness

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1. shamblesnoun

   Synonyms:
   flesh market

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1. List of paraphrases for "shambles":

   chaos, mess, ruins, carnage, disaster, confusion

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1. Andy Biggs:

   While the new mask guidance is encouraging, the CDC and my Far Radical Left colleagues only chose to do this to distract from the consequences of catastrophic policy decisions that have been heard around the world, inflation is rising, the Middle East is in shambles, the working class can’t fill up their gas tanks, our border is being overrun and the Biden Administration’s leadership is nowhere to be found.

2. Boris Johnson:

   He'd tested positive so there was no doubt what he was dealing with. The word' shambles' comes to mind, what's the point of bodyguards when you can't have a doctor ? The Office of Prime Minister needs better protection.

3. Ganesh Ramamoorthy:

   It's crazy if India thinks it can compete with China on something like chip manufacturing when our electronics industry is a shambles.

4. Antony Blinken:

   Russia has sought as its principal aim to totally subjugate Ukraine, to take away its sovereignty, to take away its independence -- that has failed, it has sought to assert the power of its military and its economy. We, of course, are seeing just the opposite, a military that is dramatically underperforming and an economy... as a result of sanctions that is in shambles.

5. Tom Andrews:

   It staggers the imagination as to what will be happening just really over the next few days, this thing is out of control, this is a complete catastrophe. The entire health care system is in shambles. The number of people being infected is just going through the roof, and no one trusts this junta to provide them with information or health care or vaccines that they need to confront this pandemic.