clumsy

“If we show that robots are kind of clumsy and a little stupid right now, it puts people at ease.”

From Slate ● Sep. 27, 2026

Warsh’s clumsy explanation played a role in pushing up longer-term interest rates set by the bond market.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

Planners call this the sequence-of-returns risk, which is a clumsy name for something simple.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026

"They're so funny looking. There's something about the very oversized bill, their behaviour on some of the trail camera footage, the nuzzling behaviour. And they're also so clumsy."

From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026

Bitter often joked to Jam that her father moved like a functioning disaster, clumsy and charming and breaking at least one breakable thing a week.

From "Pet" by Akwaeke Emezi

Using the blower to herd balls around the park feels fairly intuitive, though naturally I'm much clumsier and slower than the pro landscapers.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026

Camille was funnier and weirder and clumsier — and happier.

From Salon ● May 30, 2025

Keith’s Christopher, creepier and a bit clumsier, made me want to call campus security from the theater lobby.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2023

Photo by Dieter Bohn / The Verge The AirFly Classic is clumsier to use than the Pro, but it costs less.

From The Verge ● Nov. 26, 2019

Sitting in the entrance, he tried to make the blackthorn wand levitate small stones at his feet; but his magic still seemed clumsier and less powerful than it had done before.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling

But there’s an earnest, yearning passion here that makes the film feel vital even at its clumsiest.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 3, 2023

Nevertheless, the script also makes amends in some of the clumsiest, most nightmarish plot developments imaginable.

From Salon ● Dec. 9, 2021

The seven-speed Chevrolet Corvette Stingray has a feature called Active Rev Matching, which automatically adjusts the engine’s speed to smooth out your clumsiest shifts—something drivers once had to learn through practice.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 24, 2018

The poor girl tumbled onto the ice as if she were the world’s clumsiest 15-year-old, milliseconds after she had appeared to be the most graceful one.

From New York Times ● Feb. 20, 2014

It was the clumsiest production of physical interaction; the whole thing lasted no more than several seconds.

From "A Very Large Expanse of Sea" by Tahereh Mafi