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Flounderish

adj

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    that flounders; that moves with awkward struggles

    "The readers were expecting things to be a little more direct, and so they're probably feeling a bit flounderish."

  2. 2
    (of a speech) moving from topic to topic, not focused figuratively

    "I had a big flounderish diatribe written up, but this isn't the place for it."

Etymology

From flounder (“act clumsily (verb)”) + -ish.

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