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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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Etymology of 'Clumsy'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Clumsy" Quotes from Famous Books

... thing could be done; when he found his house dismantled, saw the good ceilings and elegant cornices knocked to pieces, saw the light domes and modern sashes give way; all taken out to be replaced, at profuse expense, by a clumsy imitation of Gothic; how often did be sigh and calculate, when he saw the tribes of workmen file off as their dinner bell rang! how often did he bless himself, when he beheld the huge beams of timber dragged into his ...

— Tales and Novels, Vol. V - Tales of a Fashionable Life • Maria Edgeworth

... very clumsy of you, my little friend, to present your bill before the furs. Learn to know women. You must never ask us to pay until the moment ...

— Catherine de' Medici • Honore de Balzac

... a clumsy enough way of explaining things, he thought discontentedly, and yet it was the best he could do. He folded the paper and put it into the envelope; he sat for a moment with it in his hand looking down at Christine's married name, "Mrs. ...

— The Second Honeymoon • Ruby M. Ayres

... was graciously pleased also, upon their good behaviour, to remit the subsequent execution. She sent presents to all the learned men in Asia; and they in return did not fail to cry her up as a pattern of clemency, wisdom, and virtue: and though the panegyrics of the learned are generally as clumsy as they are fulsome, they ventured to allure her that their writings would be as durable as brass, and that the memory of her glorious reign would reach ...

— Hieroglyphic Tales • Horace Walpole

... enough everywhere) is coarse and clumsy in this career. Vengeance has nothing to do with comedy, nor properly with satire. The satirist who told us that Indignation made his verses for him, might have been told in return that she excluded him thereby from the first class, and thrust him among ...

— Imaginary Conversations and Poems - A Selection • Walter Savage Landor

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