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Unwieldy

adjective

Difficult to use or handle or manage because of size or weight or shape. Synonym: unmanageable. "Almost dropped the unwieldy parcel"

Difficult to work or manipulate.

Lacking grace in movement or posture. Synonyms: clumsy, clunky, gawky, ungainly. "Clumsy fingers" , "What an ungainly creature a giraffe is" , "Heaved his unwieldy figure out of his chair"

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"Unwieldy" Quotes from Famous Books

... Colony as it came to be called, managed their own affairs in their own way for seventy years. At first the men assembled in town meeting, made laws, and elected officers. But when the growth of the colony made such meetings unwieldy, representative government was set up, and each settlement sent ...

— A Brief History of the United States • John Bach McMaster

... flickering, half-lighted life; the blood she gave it thin with her own weariness and vitiate from its drunken sire; the form she gave it soft-boned and angle-headed, more like overgrown embryo than child of the boasted Australian land. Even the milk it drew from her unwieldy breasts was tainted with city smoke and impure food and unhealthy housing. Its playground was the cramped kitchen floor and the kerb and the gutter. Its food for a year had been the food that feeds alike ...

— The Workingman's Paradise - An Australian Labour Novel • John Miller

... exempted from corporal punishment, while the Justice was made responsible to the cortes for the faithful discharge of his duties, under penalty of death. [63] As this supervision of the whole legislature was found unwieldy in practice, it was superseded, after various modifications by a commission of members elected from each one of the four estates, empowered to sit every year in Saragossa, with authority to investigate ...

— History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella V1 • William H. Prescott

... the bag and shawl made such an unwieldy bundle that his progress was very slow, and he stopped more than once to rest and take breath, and as often as he stopped the blue eyes would look up enquiringly at him with an expression which made his boyish heart beat faster as he thought what pretty eyes they were and wondered who ...

— Tracy Park • Mary Jane Holmes

... or Gore Vale? Room for two still in the 'Lightning' 'bus! No more?—then we are off. Link arms, ladies and gentlemen;" and the unwieldy apparatus was started. The couplings divided half-way down. About seven reached the bottom, the remaining five were upset, and were left there. Cecil was in the latter division, and having extricated herself from the debris, ...

— Bluebell - A Novel • Mrs. George Croft Huddleston

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