Sentence example with the word 'clumsy'

clumsy

all thumbs, bumbling, crosswise, fumbling, harsh, incommodious, left-handed, messy, slovenly, unfelicitous, untidy

Definition adj. lacking grace in movement or posture

Last update: November 5, 2016


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His clumsy brother hardly helps him with his work.   [verb]

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The story telling is clumsy, with the extremely short chapters making the book seem extremely bitty.   [noun]

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The ECB does not help itself by its often somewhat clumsy use of words.   [adjective]

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The clumsy door revolved on massive hinges, and she entered a cellar so large that the light of her candle did not reach the furthermost corners and recesses.   [adjective]

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A clumsy affair called a catamaran, the acephalous ancestor of the torpedo, was expected to relieve the sea of some thousands of people who had no business there.   [adjective]

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A dirty, ugly scrawl it was, bulged out with clumsy folding, and dabbed with wax in the creases.   [adjective]

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But being of the clumsy English race, he was quite at a loss what to do with himself.   [adjective]

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Octavianus and his Agrippa are the conquerors; but if a rock mutilates or an elephant's clumsy foot crushes me, I am nevertheless of a higher quality than either.   [adjective]

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