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splay
adjective as in broad
adjective as in clumsy
Weak matches
- 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
- stumbling
- unable
- unadept
- uncoordinated
- uncouth
- undexterous
- uneasy
- unhandy
- unskillful
- untactful
- untalented
- untoward
- weedy
adjective as in flat
adjective as in gawky
adjective as in lumbering
adjective as in squat
adjective as in wide
verb as in slant
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Example Sentences
They are cut on the splay so that the front end is half the width of a header and one side half the length of the brick.
No variation, no change; the art of it is to keep almost to the same groove, and not to make the figure broad and splay.
The centre porch has twisted columns, which are carried round the splay of the arch.
Such a collection of splay feet, puffed joints, and misshapen limbs was assuredly never before made within so small a compass.
They are boldly splayed off, and in the middle of the splay is set a shaft, which finishes with a sculptured capital.
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On this page you'll find 289 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to splay, such as: deep, expansive, full, large, vast, and roomy.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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