clumsiness

Example Sentences

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O’Hara sinks into the role, embracing the inherent clumsiness of community theater while celebrating its flaws.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 30, 2026

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

We've excluded penalties to show how good United have been at creating and restricting chances themselves, rather than relying on opposition clumsiness or shirt-pulling like they did to score the winner against Burnley.

From BBC • Sep. 10, 2025

And I would follow, mimicking her and fighting my natural clumsiness, pleased to be part of her game.

From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine