clumsy

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adj.not agile; awkward

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Equipped with foreign DNA, the little guys nevertheless seemed totally normal, nosing around the lab and running everywhere without obvious clumsy stumbles.

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The colonizers spun this through their clumsy tongues and came up with “carel” as a sweeping term for all the food the Indigenous people ate.

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Each of Liverpool’s first two goals received a Leeds reply within 10 minutes, but a clumsy lunge by Rodrigo Moreno gave Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah the opportunity to convert the winning penalty shot.

LEEDS UNITED IS SCORING (AND GETTING SCORED ON) LIKE NOBODY ELSE IN THE PREMIER LEAGUENICHOLAS SOMMARCH 10, 2021FIVETHIRTYEIGHT

Reynolds and Mani are very good at playing hapless and clumsy with endearing rapport, and their general helplessness comes off not as a stale joke but as a concerning hint of things to come.

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Here’s a practical guide to finding the glass out there for you, whether you’re frugal, clumsy, or just running out of kitchen space.

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A cup holder, on the flat portion of the laptop tray, keeps mugs of coffee and tea from spilling—making this a great pick for even the clumsiest among us.

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Truth be told, he’s always been a clumsy fit for this league of superstars with well-earned street cred — the Allen Iversons and Stephon Marburys.

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Scientists tell us that from the point of view of optics the human eye is a clumsy instrument poorly contrived for its work.

THE UNSOLVED RIDDLE OF SOCIAL JUSTICESTEPHEN LEACOCK

With which magnanimous sentiment he turned on his clumsy heel, and entered his apartment again.

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They merely used such instruments as fate offered, however trivial, however clumsy.

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