cumbrous
Example Sentences
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This summer, his big league career got off to a charmed start that belied the cumbrous path he took to get there.
From Los Angeles Times
The Road Home Program, a state program supposed to help rebuild, was cumbrous and slow, and grants often didn’t cover the cost of repairs.
From Washington Times
Like the restaurant’s long menu, cumbrous name and odd location, it’s another example of everything verging on overconceptualization.
From New York Times
He pursued her briefly and cumbrously with unexpected visits and tentative love-letters; she eluded him without much difficulty.
From The Guardian
This cumbrous and costly apparatus kept the field to itself for some time.”
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.