How To Use Clumsily In A Sentence
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But by gum, I just can't bear the notion of some Joe Lunchpail and his slovenly wife trundling clumsily through my private slaughterhouse, or trying on my world-renowned collection of 16th century undergarments.
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Clumsily, he sheathed both of his swords and turned to get Vincent and Emma.
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He clumsily swung his hard-shell bass guitar case around as he dodged back to the front door, grabbed the paper bag, and ran full-speed back to the van.
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Colville, it will be remembered, was an adept at that graceful tactfulness which is somewhat clumsily described by this tolerant generation as going on as if nothing had happened.
The Last Hope
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And how awful that poor Mary dies as she lived — stupidly, clumsily, in "bewilderment," running foolishly back and forth.
The Prime of Ms. Muriel Spark
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That's better," said Kingozi, and began clumsily to rebutton her blouse.
The Leopard Woman
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My spoon dropped clumsily from my hand.
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He poured clumsily, spilling a good amount of claret as the carriage bumped along.
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I capered clumsily into the mob and drew a squad of ghosts trotting with a fife band.
THE TARTAN RINGERS
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He poured clumsily, spilling a good amount of claret as the carriage bumped along.
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She's a courtesan showgirl who dreams of being a real actress, we're told rather clumsily.
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Then, once spectators have negotiated the crowd management arrangements, which the building accommodates somewhat clumsily, they will enter a space that can only be described as stonking, a room big enough for more than 17,500 people.
Olympics Aquatic Centre – review
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Cook drove clumsily, keeping up a constant stream of chatter.
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He mopped at them clumsily with a huge white handkerchief.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Frankenstein creature is kid stuff horror: one-dimensional, mundane, bumbling, awkward, clumsily destructive.
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Her numb leg gave way beneath her and she stumbled clumsily.
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But the show clumsily spoon-feeds us its insights.
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You can see big chunks of this pillar have been blasted away by a bomb - and rather clumsily filled in with grey plaster later on.
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This was Prodi at his most clumsily counterproductive: the deal handbagged by Margaret Thatcher in 1984 clearly does need to be renegotiated to take account of greater UK wealth, a 25-member union and less spending on farm subsidies.
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Then she pummelled Clare's pillow and kicked clumsily against the nearest wall with her booted feet.
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He is strongly but not clumsily built, short-coupled, with none of the snipy speedy range of the valley animal.
The Mountains
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In a roaring but strangely squeakily toned mumble of utter nonsensical gibberish, the round manchild asked me something I can only assume was about how my shopping went, to which I could think of no other reply except, "Fine, and you," before I loaded the conveyor belt with my few items that were to be sent frightfully into this employee's clumsily oversized hands.
One Cent Baby
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Ye'll hae a waught wi 'me afore ye gang, John," he said clumsily, "for th 'morns we've paddl' 't thegither i 'th' Nith.
Richard Carvel — Volume 04
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The child scrambled clumsily to her feet and began to run in the other direction.
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I instantly panicked, clumsily splashing and flailing about as I instinctively fought to keep myself afloat.
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He saw the man's round moonface clearly and the shocked panic in his eyes as Thirle began to run clumsily across the court, arms outspread like a bird's wings for balance.
The Silent Tower
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Gavin nodded and sat down again while Sadie began clumsily stuffing clothing into a carpet bag.
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He is flirting with you - clumsily enough for you to write to me to ask what the hell he means, but flirting nonetheless.
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Cypress trunk flutings and druidlike knees rise everywhere, and mud turtles paddle clumsily through the talmin-mirrored waters.
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If history is any guide a lot of this diplomacy was doubtless clumsily done, in alternations between proffers of carrots and threats of the stick.
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On the whole, though, the flashbacks are clumsily integrated into the main action, and can't be salvaged by the staging.
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The grey changed leads again, clumsily, and crashed over the obstacle, ramming the pommel of the saddle into Michael's belly.
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He looked back at Roland, smiled without showing his teeth, twirled the gunslinger's revolver once on his finger, clumsily, burlesquing a show-shooter's fancy coda, and then he held it out to Roland, butt first.
The Drawing of the Three
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He was clumsily trying to grab at Alfred's arms.
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Clumsily staged and acted too was the dinner party scene with Dr. Melfi and her colleagues, unhelped by Peter Bogdonavich's limitations as a non-actor.
Obstructed View (updated): James Wolcott
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The soprano playing the part of the Woodbird clumsily ‘flies’ a replica avian on a fishing rod - the whole scene looks jejune and ridiculous.
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There was a dirty smudge under it where another opinion on the subject had been clumsily erased.
Bomber
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This war has greatly demoralised and discredited the governing class in Great Britain, and if big masses of unemployed and unfed people, no longer strung up by the actuality of war, masses now trained to arms and with many quite sympathetic officers available, are released clumsily and planlessly into a world of risen prices and rising rents, of legal obstacles and forensic complications, of greedy speculators and hampered enterprises, there will be insurrection and revolution.
What is Coming?
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The Frankenstein creature is kid stuff horror: one-dimensional, mundane, bumbling, awkward, clumsily destructive.
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I sat clumsily on the floor and slumped against the wall dejectedly.
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The flirtatious Emily spends a lot of the film clumsily pursuing her crush, the somewhat receptive Fin.
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Gritting his teeth, he climbed clumsily to his feet, swaying dizzily as he tried to catch his balance, feeling his healing spells going to work to knit his fractured skull.
Crimson Wind
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Clumsily, he fumbled around for tissues, but couldn't find any.
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The similar comic coupling of two secret agents in Expo 58 was clumsily off key.
Times, Sunday Times
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(What he actually wrote, in a 2005 Washington Times editorial, was something closer to “homosexuality is a deathstyle” — which is so clumsily overstated that it crosses into pig-ignorant territory.)
The Volokh Conspiracy » More Influential Books
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I capered clumsily into the mob and drew a squad of ghosts trotting with a fife band.
THE TARTAN RINGERS
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The egg of the bird breaks clumsily under the blows of a wart-like excrescence which is formed expressly upon the beak of the unborn bird; the egg of the Cricket, of a far superior structure, opens like an ivory casket.
Social Life in the Insect World
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IV. i.60 (228,3) [This ruffian hath botch'd up] I fancy it is only a coarse expression for _made up_, as a bad taylor is called a _botcher_. and to botch is to make clumsily.
Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies
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When she could sleep no more, and her stomach churned from the rocking of the ship, Chérie stumbled from her bed and stumbled clumsily as the ship careened sharply to the left.
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I fumbled clumsily with the scarf, so that he could measure the ugly, bare scalp.
Coping With Sudden Hair Loss
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On deck, for'ard, a dozen blacks pottered clumsily at scraping the teak rail.
A SON OF THE SUN
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So the results were clumsily regraded to make them less spectacular.
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There were traces of vomitus, clumsily cleaned up, in the middle of the blue-tiled floor.
TOO MANY MURDERS
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If history is any guide a lot of this diplomacy was doubtless clumsily done, in alternations between proffers of carrots and threats of the stick.
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Her black head kerchief was old and worn, and her clumsily-fitting, coarse cloth "sacque" stood out below her waist as if it were of sheet iron, while her spare skirts fell below it like a drooping flower-bell from its open calyx above.
Little Tora, The Swedish Schoolmistress and Other Stories
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He noticed, as she sliced the bread and spread it clumsily with peanut butter, that her hands were shaking.
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Pallottino and other notable experts clumsily tweak the translation for those special 'inessive' instances of zilcθi I just mentioned, claiming it means 'reign' instead, as in "in the reign".
Ammendments to Etruscan Dictionary Draft 005
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She clumsily opened her book and fumbled around for her pen.
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I crept up to my first victim in the same way as I imagine a lion cub stalks it first wildebeest - clumsily.
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Batteries in the early 1970s were relatively large and dictated that the watch case was clumsily large too.
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Sometimes the wavelets did the kneading and rolling so clumsily that the nodule was malformed, but the majority were singularly symmetrical, evidencing nice adjustment between the degree of adhesiveness of the “pug” and the applied force of the wave.
My Tropic Isle
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Last week there was also an incident when a Tory frontbencher, Keith Simpson, was clumsily told off by the Squeaker for 'chuntering'.
Home | Mail Online
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A dazzling move started by the winger was also unfortunately ended by the same pair of hands, clumsily spilling the ball whilst attempting to offload.
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I capered clumsily into the mob and drew a squad of ghosts trotting with a fife band.
THE TARTAN RINGERS
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Christine passed her cigarette to the other girl, who smiled clumsily, adoringly.
The Landscape of Pleasure
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What he actually wrote, in a 2005 Washington Times editorial, was something closer to “homosexuality is a deathstyle” — which is so clumsily overstated that it crosses into pig-ignorant territory.
The Volokh Conspiracy » More Influential Books
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he snatched the bills clumsily
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A Murillo, that is, whose hair was often in disorder, who wore heavy shoes and clumsily cut dresses, which left her without any figure.
The Fat and the Thin
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He clumsily lifts the dead person back onto the pile of freshly killed human corpses, slumping over it in exhaustion, his lab coat cloaking the heap, but not entirely covering it.
Michael Vazquez: ON THE 48TH ANNUAL NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL
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I fumbled clumsily with the scarf, so that he could measure the ugly, bare scalp.
Coping With Sudden Hair Loss
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I fumbled clumsily with the scarf, so that he could measure the ugly, bare scalp.
Coping With Sudden Hair Loss
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There was a dirty smudge under it where another opinion on the subject had been clumsily erased.
Bomber
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He removed the bandage from the part, and asked, "what fool had tied it up so clumsily;" _the fool_, as he well knew, being the house surgeon at his side.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844
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When this constant lover returned he brought an offering of late May-flowers and bright checkerberries held clumsily in his big hand, and gave them to the only woman he had ever loved.
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The clown clumsily teetered back and forth and vanished in a flash of colorful confetti.
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Down in the cave, deep in her pipelike vertical tunnel, Zoe was jackhammering away when suddenly the chisel of her jackhammer popped through the rubble at her feet and the ground gave way and she fell six feet, landing clumsily in a dark horizontal tunnel.
THE 5 GREATEST WARRIORS
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Vaguely recognising a cup of coffee and a slice of cake, I gathered them up clumsily and joined the queue towards the cash-register.
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They are addressing a real concern, however clumsily, and are aware (even if they aren't aware) of what may be an irremediable weakness in electronic security.
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Her overbearingly entitled yuppie brother, Beau (Craig Wallace), clumsily pitches a tent near Johnnie's with girlfriend-of-the-moment Shavondra (Fatima Quander), a clotheshorse who would flee nature faster than you can say "American Express.
'24, 7, 365' review: Perpetual state of angst can be hard to handle
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Her overbearingly entitled yuppie brother, Beau (Craig Wallace), clumsily pitches a tent near Johnnie's with girlfriend-of-the-moment Shavondra (Fatima Quander), a clotheshorse who would flee nature faster than you can say "American Express.
'24, 7, 365' review: Perpetual state of angst can be hard to handle
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She clumsily tried to unsheathe her sword from her pack while trying to keep up.
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The reaches of the river were spangled with white ranunculus, the marshy places were starred with lady's-smock and lit with marsh-mallow wherever the regiments of the sedges lowered their swords, and the northward-moving hippopotami, shiny black monsters, sporting clumsily, came floundering and blundering through it all, rejoicing dimly and possessed with one clear idea, to splash the river muddy.
Tales of Space and Time
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The Church of St. Eloi was very ancient, and adorned with strange old statues of clumsily carved stone painted in garish colors.
A Childhood in Brittany Eighty Years Ago
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Once it clumsily clears the runway, it takes off.
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The reaches of the river were spangled with white ranunculus, the marshy places were starred with lady's-smock and lit with marsh-mallow wherever the regiments of the sedges lowered their swords, and the northward-moving hippopotami, shiny black monsters, sporting clumsily, came floundering and blundering through it all, rejoicing dimly and possessed with one clear idea, to splash the river muddy.
Tales of Space and Time
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It represents nothing more than banality, platitudes, and outrageous nonsense clumsily conveyed by insipid prose.
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As she lumbered clumsily toward Kethry, the sorceress got a whiff of an unpleasant reek-half unwashed clothing and stale sweat, half an animallike musk.
Oathblood
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Without saying so outright, though, he seems to feel that religion is obliged to make peace with such forces because it must reconnect itself with "culture"—even when culture is at odds with orthodoxy and what he rather clumsily calls "orthopraxy" traditional morality.
Among the Unbelievers
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Clumsily fumbling around in his personal possessions with fingers which had fallen half-asleep, the emissary produced a neatly rolled-up paper and handed it over to the scaly hand before him.
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In such cases the erasion was so clumsily performed as often to leave distinct traces of the previous letters.
De Amicitia, Scipio's Dream
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What is available is a videotape of the guru clumsily trying to produce a necklace for a politician at a public event, fumbling about under a trophy he is carrying, and almost dropping the ‘apport’ in a really sloppy performance.
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A true classic, if you like cringingly cheesy and clumsily macho - and the dune buggy is a really classy touch.
Is That Legal?: Blut und Ehre!
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Zip crouches and unlaces his boots, clumsily shakes them off.
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She fumbled clumsily, ending up draping her robe over her shoulders.
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She was crocheting an edge of lace, clumsily; she had never excelled at piecework, but she liked handling the polished ivory crochet hook.
WICKED: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST
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It took me two sentences, yet it took Michael bay 150 minutes to clumsily unweave that blanket of stupid.
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It had legs stuffed with sawdust and a clumsily painted cardboard head, and on this head it wore a bourrelet.
A Childhood in Brittany Eighty Years Ago
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Androctus, no doubt daunted by his opponent2s reputation, gives Sir Prosper and his huge cream-colored destrier a wide berth in the lists, and Sir Prosper feints clumsily with the big lance, clearly adjusting to the shield attached to his opponent2s right arm.
Virginity
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For the same reason that reality television is popular, reality literature sells well, regardless of whether it is clotted with clichés and occasionally clumsily phrased.
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The Frankenstein creature is kid stuff horror: one-dimensional, mundane, bumbling, awkward, clumsily destructive.
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When Simon Nishikanta, huge and gross as in the flesh he was and for ever painting delicate, insipid, feministic water - colours, when he threw his deck-chair at Scraps for clumsily knocking over his easel, he found the ham-like hand of Grimshaw so instant and heavy on his shoulder as to whirl him half about, almost fling him to the deck, and leave him lame-muscled and black-and-blued for days.
CHAPTER XI
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The vine-trellis has collapsed and has been clumsily propped up.
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There was a dirty smudge under it where another opinion on the subject had been clumsily erased.
Bomber
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Walt Whitman dreams of the first jumpshot he will take, the ball arcing clumsily from his fingers, striking the rim so hard that it sparks.
