clumsily
Example Sentences
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Unlike Alice, Bryan is the audience stand-in: the average guy who responds to a mind-boggling, impossible situation as clumsily as you or I might.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026
He clumsily glosses World War I as “one of the worst wars in human history.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
The company has responded clumsily to users’ complaints, spawning several social media news cycles about whether it respects its own customers.
From Slate ● Apr. 14, 2026
In stoppage time Mbappe was clumsily felled by Alfonso Pedraza in the box and the French forward cheekily dinked home the resulting penalty to seal Madrid's victory.
From Barron's ● Jan. 24, 2026
But when she started eagerly toward him, she forgot her own weakness; her dragging foot caught on a stone and she stumbled clumsily.
From "Son" by Lois Lowry
