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stumbler

NOUN
clumsy person
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Fully accepting that he’s the vulnerable stumbler into conditions and spaces typically inhospitable to humans, Munier still finds spiritual worth in going a day without any sightings.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 21, 2021

From above and beyond, we perceive him not as a great man falling but as a fragile, all too human stumbler.

From Time Magazine Archive

Ridgefield, Conn. Cat haters are of four types: the insecure, the egocentric, the stumbler, the peasant.

From Time Magazine Archive

Yet, happy for us when, their cause defined, They walk no longer with a stumbler blind, And quicken in the virtue of their cause, To think me a poor mouther of old saws!

From Poems — Volume 3 by Meredith, George

It is said, however, that if the car breaks and the elephants refuse to move, the title becomes derisive and is either ‘Lule Singhai,’ the lame one, or ‘Arku Singhai,’ the stumbler.

From The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV) by Russell, R. V. (Robert Vane)




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