Synonym: awkward, cumbersome, ungainly, ungraceful. Antonym: clever, dexterous, skillful. Similar words: circumspect, circumstance, glum, plump, volume, column, clue, luminary. Meaning: ['klʌmzɪ] adj. 1. lacking grace in movement or posture 2. not elegant or graceful in expression 3. difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape 4. showing lack of skill or aptitude.
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31. Means testing was expensive, clumsy and time-wasting.
32. His writing is clumsy and unconvincing.
33. The legal procedure is far too clumsy and hit-and-miss.
34. The servant: Clumsy, but he saved the day.
35. Koppel's clumsy joke fell flat.
36. The treatment of the inputs is rather clumsy.
37. Dana made a clumsy attempt to catch the ball.
38. His clumsy rage scandalised Dublin's academe.
39. What a clumsy lout he was!
40. Thus wired, many patients feel like a clumsy marionette.
41. Some moments are too fleeting for clumsy fiddling.
42. But it is buried in the indigestible and clumsy structure of Greig's play.
43. The show is a clumsy blend of news and entertainment.
44. Also, there is a danger that in such a sensitive area a statute may well be a clumsy approach initially.
45. A wonderful defensive move which prevents ... b5 even though in other respects the rook lands on a rather clumsy square.
46. On rough paper(Sentence dictionary), cliches and clumsy constructions are allowed and then debated.
47. After that, like any clumsy criminal caught in a thickening web of deception, he had panicked.
48. But I am pretty clumsy so I had better not take up too many other sports.
49. The gilding was flaking off a clumsy clasp and some stitches had broken on the handle, leaving it frayed and shabby.
50. She winced at their infelicities, at the clumsy way they beat about the bush.
51. Clumsy on land Manx shear waters may be, but they are elegant fliers and first-class navigators.
52. When he left, the other actors offered him clumsy commiseration, as to some one who had been bereaved.
53. Quite the contrary. Small birds fell at my feet wherever, in my clumsy fashion, I trod.
54. Epithets can be abusive: You clumsy fool! epitome A short summary of a speech or book.
55. I was so shy and clumsy when I was seventeen.
56. I was tall and clumsy as a child, so I avoided sports.
57. Paula always felt clumsy when she had to serve food to people.
58. Also, during my last year at Oxford, I had noticed that I was getting rather clumsy in my movements.
59. They are all rather clumsy and fairly large, being distinguished from the parasols of the period by their short stumpy handles.
60. They are like scraps from a tailor's cutting room which have taken clumsy wing.
More similar words: circumspect, circumstance, glum, plump, volume, column, clue, luminary, aluminum, include, columnist, exclude, clutter, cluster, illuminate, curriculum, antebellum, conclude, including, exclusive, excluding, conclusion, exclusively, in conclusion, draw a conclusion.