clumsy

Popular culture has often depicted the dodo as clumsy and unintelligent, sometimes suggesting that its extinction was almost unavoidable.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 9, 2026

I get a little misty remembering my own clumsy progress through that flower-filled minefield.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026

People are furious at the referee, the clumsy VAR process, and, of course, at FIFA, soccer’s governing fiefdom.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

It was a clumsy tackle and a real surprise that there was no intervention in a game which finished 0-0.

From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026

The James Caird still towed the clumsy Wills for safety, and the Docker dragged itself forward in the lead.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong

Camille was funnier and weirder and clumsier — and happier.

From Salon ● May 30, 2025

Apple doesn’t allow for native app streaming, requiring the likes of Microsoft to build a clumsier, web-based solution than what’s available on Android.

From The Verge ● Jun. 8, 2022

Another, clumsier layer of cheap varnish was no doubt applied by the thieves.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2022

Instead, most chose to go with somewhat clumsier The Artist Formerly Known As Prince or simply The Artist.

From BBC ● Jan. 19, 2017

As a result, the Phaistos disk’s printing technology was much clumsier, and offered fewer advantages over writing by hand, than Gutenberg’s printing press.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

But there’s an earnest, yearning passion here that makes the film feel vital even at its clumsiest.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 3, 2023

Nevertheless, the script also makes amends in some of the clumsiest, most nightmarish plot developments imaginable.

From Salon ● Dec. 9, 2021

The clumsiest amongst us has taken a daily ballet class, and isn’t half bad.

From Slate ● Apr. 24, 2020

The seven-speed Chevrolet Corvette Stingray has a feature called Active Rev Matching, which automatically adjusts the engine’s speed to smooth out your clumsiest shifts—something drivers once had to learn through practice.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 24, 2018

I was the clumsiest, worst party butler Mrs. Dawson ever had, and to her everlasting credit, she did not fire me right away.

From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride