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unhandy
adjective as in awkward
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adjective as in awkward
adjective as in bulky
adjective as in clumsy
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- 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
- unskillful
- untactful
- untalented
- untoward
- weedy
adjective as in cumbersome
adjective as in halting
adjective as in hulky
adjective as in inapt
adjective as in incommodious
adjective as in incompetent
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adjective as in inconvenient
adjective as in inept
adjective as in klutzy
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- all thumbs
- amateurish
- artless
- blundering
- bulky
- bumbling
- bungling
- butterfingers
- clumsy
- coarse
- floundering
- gawky
- graceless
- green
- having two left feet
- having two left hands
- incompetent
- inept
- inexpert
- lumbering
- lumpish
- maladroit
- oafish
- rude
- stiff
- stumbling
- uncoordinated
- uncouth
- unfit
- ungainly
- ungraceful
- unpolished
- unrefined
- unskilled
- unskillful
adjective as in lumbering
adjective as in maladroit
adjective as in ponderous
adjective as in uncoordinated
adjective as in unfit
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adjective as in unskilled
adjective as in unwieldy
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Example Sentences
It seems as if everything on the place was devised to make work as hard, unhandy, and wrong-end-to as possible.'
They were, however, extraordinarily unhandy with them, and our own cavalry had a very poor opinion of their prowess and dash.
Tha are dredful unhandy tew cook, yu hav tu bile one eend ov them tu a time, yu kant git them awl into a potash kittle tu onst.
But, the sides and ends being sewed to the roof made it unhandy to use as a shelter, when shelter was needed on short notice.
They are rather unhandy to carry about and few trappers want many, yet under certain conditions they are very useful.
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On this page you'll find 702 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to unhandy, such as: amateurish, rude, stiff, all thumbs, artless, and blundering.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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