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clumsy
[ kluhm-zee ]
adjective
- awkward in movement or action; without skill or grace:
He is very clumsy and is always breaking things.
Synonyms: lubberly, lumbering, ungainly, ungraceful
- awkwardly done or made; unwieldy; ill-contrived:
He made a clumsy, embarrassed apology.
Synonyms: inept, heavy-handed, bumbling, inexpert, maladroit, unskillful, unhandy
clumsy
/ ˈklʌmzɪ /
adjective
- lacking in skill or physical coordination
- awkwardly constructed or contrived
Derived Forms
- ˈclumsiness, noun
- ˈclumsily, adverb
Other Words From
- clum·si·ly adverb
- clum·si·ness noun
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of clumsy1
Example Sentences
The AI tool may have been guilty of fuzzy and clumsy phrasing, but it did not defend or sympathize with the KKK.
In farce, we expect to see characters, overwhelmed by situations of their own making, behaving at their clumsy worst.
Others have been less adept, clumsy in their communications or wholly unmoved by worker concerns — sparking anger among their ranks as a result.
As last year, the production seemed arranged to sell the party idea, in ways more clumsy than effective.
One of its stranger spinoffs was the grandiose, tactically clumsy Symbionese Liberation Army — an army of perhaps a dozen white men and women led by a black escaped convict.
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