clunky
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Every user I knew complained it was inconsistent, illogical, cluttered, had clunky navigation and ignored accessibility standards.
From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2026
One user posted a video of a clunky but functional clone of the videogame “Grand Theft Auto,” showing it being coded autonomously by Fable.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
Ministers have acknowledged already that guidance to forces is clunky and ought to be reviewed.
From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2026
The clunky machine had around the same amount of computing power as a modern-day toaster.
From MarketWatch ● May 23, 2026
It was a big piece of plastic, and it was heavy and clunky.
From "The Missing Mitt (The Hardy Boys: Secret Files, #2)" by Franklin W. Dixon
Making it even broader and clunkier won’t help.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 21, 2025
In reality, the transition towards that future is a little clunkier — and a little more fraught with questions about whether it’s the one we really want.
From Salon ● Jan. 22, 2024
The analytic mode of reasoning is clunkier and more time consuming, often exemplified by “reason, mathematics, and cost-benefit analysis,” says Slovic.
From National Geographic ● Aug. 17, 2023
The upshot is a Twitter that looks similar to the way it always has, but that is clunkier and less predictable in what tweets are surfaced and seen, users said.
From New York Times ● Apr. 7, 2023
As the National Hurricane Center and the World Meteorological Organization explain, affixing names makes things simpler for keeping track, beating the hay out of using something clunkier, such as, say, longitude-latitude coordinates.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 25, 2022
Part of it is Sullivan’s brusque direction, which speeds through some character-building dialogue then lingers on scenes that have the clunkiest exposition.
From New York Times ● Nov. 4, 2021
Even the dungeons, which are the clunkiest parts of the game, are inventive; they’re shopping malls rather than typical dungeons, and boast mundane objects like cellphones and TVs as enemies.
From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2021
"Pacific Rim," or what I remember of it, struck me as Del Toro's loudest, clunkiest and least essential picture, if also one of his most passionately felt.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 22, 2018
That is admittedly the film’s clunkiest line, meant to describe the technological power of the Grid, but representative of its largely uninspired screenplay.
From The Verge ● Oct. 18, 2017
Even then, student accounts were invariably on the university's oldest, clunkiest machine.
From Underground by Suelette Dreyfus
