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clumsiness

[kluhm-zee-nis] / ˈklʌm zi nɪs /


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She spilled Coke on her sari and figured her clumsiness would doom the engagement.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 25, 2025

Some of this clumsiness is simply the endearing choreography of learning something new.

From Salon • Dec. 20, 2025

“I’m sure we all have fractured toes from stuff like this...Just clumsiness I guess.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2025

These include difficulty concentrating, depression, stumbling and clumsiness, involuntary jerking of the limbs and body, mood swings and personality changes, problems swallowing, speaking and breathing.

From BBC • Apr. 16, 2025

Now he saw that it was not random thorny branches and his own clumsiness in walking into them, but rather an assault from Forest itself.

From "Messenger" by Lois Lowry




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