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splay
adjective as in broad
adjective as in clumsy
Weak matches
- all thumbs
- blundering
- blunderous
- bumbling
- bungling
- butterfingered
- clownish
- crude
- elephantine
- gauche
- gawkish
- gawky
- graceless
- ham-handed
- heavy
- helpless
- hulking
- ill-shaped
- incompetent
- inelegant
- inexperienced
- inexpert
- lubberly
- lumbering
- lumpish
- maladroit
- oafish
- stumbling
- unable
- unadept
- uncoordinated
- uncouth
- undexterous
- uneasy
- unhandy
- unskillful
- untactful
- untalented
- untoward
- weedy
adjective as in flat
adjective as in gawky
adjective as in lumbering
adjective as in squat
adjective as in wide
verb as in slant
Example Sentences
The full video shows a man — Retes — splayed on the ground surrounded by agents.
The tires of his car are splayed out and he appears to be about to careen off his corner pedestal straight into traffic.
In another instance captured on video, a U.S. citizen is splayed out on a sidewalk in El Monte as two men with vests that read “Border Patrol” kneel over him.
Like fluttering wings, his 12 elegantly splayed arms wield an array of esoteric symbols around her excited body, while her single arm raises what appears to be a ritual blade high overhead.
A diary of one of the actors — splayed open on the desk — read that she was grieving the loss of her future.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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