clumsy
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Clumsy attempts by local authorities to contain the outpouring of criticism have been met with derision and further suspicion.
From Washington Post • Feb. 9, 2022
Clumsy diplomacy, heightened emotions and spy-like secrecy: the row over the new security pact between the UK, the US and Australia has it all.
From BBC • Sep. 19, 2021
Clumsy and irrepressible, his running gag relies on him disrupting the lives of his neighbors, the Winslow family, then uttering his high-pitched, nasal catchphrase, “Did I do that?”
From New York Times • Mar. 24, 2021
Clumsy Inspector Jacques Clouseau chases a jewel thief and his nephew.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 13, 2019
Clumsy with fright and haste, he dropped the cotton rag three times before he was able to wrap it about the goblet as it had been before.
From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
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