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clumsiness

/kluhm-zee/US // ˈklʌm zi //UK // (ˈklʌmzɪ) //

笨拙,笨手笨脚,笨拙性,笨重

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    clum·si·er, clum·si·est.

    • : awkward in movement or action; without skill or grace: He is very clumsy and is always breaking things.
    • : awkwardly done or made; unwieldy; ill-contrived: He made a clumsy, embarrassed apology.

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Examples

  • Robots have come a long way since our first clumsy forays into artificial movement many decades ago.

  • Yet I run remarkably straight, moving more efficiently than I ever imagined possible with my clumsy body.

  • Even the cloud-strewn blue of the Washington sky seemed keyed to the moment, and to this particular event, taking place in a spot where just two weeks ago a bunch of clumsy, if dangerous, insurrectionists took a run at democracy and failed.

  • They found that the bat-like dinosaurs would have been clumsy gliders and probably went extinct because they couldn’t compete with the keen flying abilities of birds and early mammalian gliders.

  • While this could make for neat puzzles, the result is instead a clumsy execution of trial-and-error.

  • Yet another chapter in the "J. Law's Clumsiness is So Endearing" saga.

  • Whatever Kerry lacks in clumsiness, he makes up for in spinelessness.

  • Just a detail, perhaps, but it underlines the clumsiness of Romney's decision to come to Israel.

  • On Reliable Sources Sunday, Terence Smith said that a recent Obama gaffe was “Romney-esque in its clumsiness.”

  • To his other iniquities Black Sheep had now added a phenomenal clumsiness—was as unfit to trust in action as he was in word.

  • Still more yellow than usual, Hemerlingue internally accused himself of clumsiness and imprudence.

  • If he had not the air of a thoroughbred, he had none of the plebeian clumsiness of the cart-horse.

  • And moreover, the ponderous clumsiness of the bull filled him with contempt.

  • Her inexperience and the clumsiness of the boat baffled her.