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lumbering
adjective as in clumsy, awkward
Example Sentences
Climate change, he claimed to audible gasps, was "the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world" and was lumbering European countries with expensive energy costs compared to fossil fuels.
That summer, Fisher said, no matter what he did, the bears kept lumbering back into town.
And for decades, every attempt to create legal access has foundered on the rocky shoals of property rights and lumbering bureaucracy.
In consequence, our civic machinery was, and still can be, lumberingly ineffective.
Instead, the lumbering William “Refrigerator” Perry got the handoff and scored.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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