clumsy
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What’s weird and slightly clumsy is that he said he was taking a break from his golf game only to show up on the course with another friend/potential client.
From MarketWatch • May 27, 2026
Mary, on the other hand, is a clumsy bird who, in Hadlow’s telling, becomes a perfectly capable duckling swimming fiercely amid a bevy of swans.
From Salon • May 20, 2026
Once, a uniformed police officer joined one of the services but momentarily forgot to turn off his video, a clumsy reminder for Zion’s faithful that they were being watched.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026
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
Her up-close vision isn’t good, even under the best of circumstances, and it doesn’t help that the cold presses through the glass, making our fingers numb and clumsy.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
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