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clumsy
adjective as in not agile; awkward
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
- splay
- stumbling
- unable
- unadept
- uncoordinated
- uncouth
- undexterous
- uneasy
- unhandy
- unskillful
- untactful
- untalented
- untoward
- weedy
Example Sentences
That was the same tactic, with clumsy implementation, that the super PAC employed earlier in the election cycle.
Tina McKenzie, policy chair at the Federation of Small Businesses suggested that the new bill was a "rushed job, clumsy, chaotic and poorly planned".
Vance responded with his clumsiest evasion of the night, a weird pivot to federal censorship, an issue that has urgency only among the most online right-wingers.
“It was a clumsy attempt that seemed unpremeditated and it didn’t make sense.”
Despite this, Rinderknecht says it’s remarkable how these “clumsy” yet “incredible” animals have managed to endure.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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