clumsy
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The production is a revival of the disappointingly fussy, clumsy, old-fashioned one by Lee Blakeley the company unveiled in 2013 for Conlon and to celebrate the Verdi bicentennial.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 29, 2026
A soldier made over $400,000 profiting from inside information on the U.S. capture of Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro — and made a clumsy attempt to cover it up, according to an indictment.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 24, 2026
Where Fausset’s story was clumsy enough to draw immediate institutional embarrassment, Bernstein’s is polished enough to escape the same reckoning.
From Salon • Apr. 6, 2026
From week to week, I try not to make a big deal of the fact that most SUVs and crossovers, regardless of pedigree, are overweight, top heavy, undersprung and generally clumsy afoot.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026
She imagined Sahel stumbling through a jungle, clumsy, oblivious to what waited for him among the vines.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
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