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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.
This was sensible thinking, especially in light of Google’s endlessly clumsy A.I. foibles and Meta’s horrific misinformation crisis.
Brendan O'Carroll, the Irish star of BBC One sitcom Mrs Brown's Boys, has apologised for making a "clumsy" joke where a "racial term was implied" during rehearsals for the series' upcoming Christmas special.
O'Carroll, who is also the show's creator, said he had made a "clumsy attempt at a joke" during a read-through of the scripts, where he was in character as Agnes Brown.
Tina McKenzie, policy chair at the Federation of Small Businesses suggested that the new bill was a "rushed job, clumsy, chaotic and poorly planned".
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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