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adjective

Clumsy adj. (compar. clumsier; superl. clumsiest)

Stiff or benumbed, as with cold. (Obs.)

Without skill or grace; wanting dexterity, nimbleness, or readiness; stiff; awkward, as if benumbed; unwieldy; unhandy; hence; ill-made, misshapen, or inappropriate; as, a clumsy person; a clumsy workman; clumsy fingers; a clumsy gesture; a clumsy excuse. "But thou in clumsy verse, unlicked, unpointed, Hast shamefully defied the Lord's anointed."

Synonyms: See Awkward.

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"Clumsy" Quotes from Famous Books

... Thais appeared, her hair unloosed and streaming over her shoulders, barefooted, and clad in a clumsy coarse garment which seemed redolent with divine voluptuousness merely from having touched her body. Behind her came a gardener, carrying, half hidden in his long beard, ...

— Thais • Anatole France

... he had made only fifteen miles in that long day of effort. And he was ravenously hungry. Well, he was too tired to go farther that night; and in default of a meal, the best thing he could do was sleep. First, however, he unlaced his larrigans, and with the thongs made shift to set a clumsy snare in a rabbit track a few paces back among the spruces. Then, close under the lee of a black wall of fir-trees standing out beyond the forest skirts, he clawed himself a deep trench in the snow. In ...

— The Backwoodsmen • Charles G. D. Roberts

... painful trepidation, the answer and requirements of Monsieur de Nucingen to the inattentive ears of du Tillet, who was looking for the bellows and scolding his valet for the clumsy manner in which he ...

— Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau • Honore de Balzac

... escape no more," cried his late gaoler, and brought his axe down with a mighty rush. Alfgar leapt nimbly aside, and before his bulky but clumsy antagonist could recover his guard, passed his keen sword beneath the left arm, through the body, and the giant staggered and fell, a bloody foam rising to his lips, as he quivered in ...

— Alfgar the Dane or the Second Chronicle of Aescendune • A. D. Crake

... middle of a great war with all his soldiers. I had just firmly established fire superiority and was actually on the verge of launching a huge offensive—the one that was going to win the war, in fact—when, as I said, in butted this great clumsy elephant and knocked ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, February 25th, 1920 • Various

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