lumberingly
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In consequence, our civic machinery was, and still can be, lumberingly ineffective.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2025
But as they lumberingly circle the ring – trading insults, playing to the gallery – it becomes harder to tell which is which.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 14, 2018
It’s a precept that covers her Long Island menagerie, which includes, besides poultry and bees, three goats, a small herd of sheep and Pepe and Boris, her lumberingly overgrown pigs.
From New York Times ● May 10, 2018
But the play as a whole is lumberingly lurid, and Alvin Epstein's Claudius offers some adroit stammering that is more effective than anyone else's speech.
From Time Magazine Archive
Our father plays touch tag -with us on the beach in the evenings, running lumberingly like a bear, laughing at the same time, wuff wuff wuff.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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