[
US
/ˈkɫəmzi/
]
[ UK /klˈʌmzi/ ]
[ UK /klˈʌmzi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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lacking grace in movement or posture
a gawky lad with long ungainly legs
clumsy fingers
heaved his unwieldy figure out of his chair
what an ungainly creature a giraffe is -
showing lack of skill or aptitude
his fumbling attempt to put up a shelf
a bungling workman
did a clumsy job -
not elegant or graceful in expression
a clumsy apology
his cumbersome writing style
if the rumor is true, can anything be more inept than to repeat it now?
an awkward prose style -
difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape
an awkward bundle to carry
clumsy wooden shoes
the cello, a rather ungainly instrument for a girl
a load of bunglesome paraphernalia
How To Use clumsy In A Sentence
- Gideon could see the places where the silver was wearing off the cane and he noticed a good deal of clumsy darning on the inside of the cloak, as though the lining had come away from the backing several times.
- I might have understood how clumsy I was, when I was rearing my children in the most utter idleness and luxury, to reform other people and their children, who were perishing from idleness in what I called the den of the Rzhanoff house, where, nevertheless, three-fourths of the people toil for themselves and for others. What to Do?
- Overall, this is a clumsy, uneven affair which, by the time the final credits roll, grates.
- But gack, it's just so clumsy here, and so very, very self-conscious.
- Her secret fear was that her performance had been clumsy and sophomoric. BABYCAKES
- Fumbling, my fingers clumsy and slow, I fought with the buttons on his soaking-wet shirt.
- Politics is wily, skilled and intelligent, not clumsy and ham-handed.
- But, at the heart of this argument, I have reached the conclusion that I'm a slightly clumsy, rather ineffectual speaker.
- After a few minutes, with his thoughts fuzzier than they'd been and his fingers more clumsy, he returned to washing his wounds. EVERVILLE
- Growling and sweating the ursine fellow untied the knot, picking at it with clumsy claws, then reeled her down fast. A TIME OF WAR
