lurching

Lurch \Lurch\ (l[^u]rch), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Lurched}
   (l[^u]rcht); p. pr. & vb. n. {Lurching}.]
   To roll or sway suddenly to one side, as a ship or a drunken
   man; to move forward while lurching.
   [1913 Webster +PJC]
    

61 Moby Thesaurus words for "lurching":
      broken, capricious, careening, catchy, choppy, dangling, desultory,
      deviative, disconnected, discontinuous, eccentric, erratic, fitful,
      flickering, fluctuating, guttering, halting, herky-jerky,
      heteroclite, immethodical, inconstant, intermittent, intermitting,
      irregular, jerky, nonuniform, patchy, pitching, rambling, reeling,
      rocking, rolling, rough, scrappy, snatchy, spasmatic, spasmic,
      spasmodic, spastic, sporadic, spotty, staggering, swaying,
      swinging, tossing, uncertain, unequal, uneven, unmethodical,
      unmetrical, unregular, unrhythmical, unsettled, unsteady,
      unsystematic, variable, veering, wandering, wavering, wobbling,
      wobbly