clumsiness
Example Sentences
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O’Hara sinks into the role, embracing the inherent clumsiness of community theater while celebrating its flaws.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 30, 2026
She spilled Coke on her sari and figured her clumsiness would doom the engagement.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 25, 2025
Some of this clumsiness is simply the endearing choreography of learning something new.
From Salon • Dec. 20, 2025
A child's personality and behavior may change, and clumsiness or stumbling develops between the ages of five and ten.
From Science Daily • Jan. 8, 2024
It was then that it occurred to her that her clumsiness was not the first victory of decrepitude and darkness but a sentence passed by time.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
