clunky
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Joe Hart: City were clunky against Arsenal in Cardiff but I don't think they will over-react to one poor game.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
The complaints included computers that hang up on agents—and customers—at busy times, outdated software and slow, clunky claims and billing systems.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
Like a book publisher shaping a clunky early draft into a bestseller, an executive at the company suggested the scientists punch up the language, which they did.
From Salon ● Jun. 26, 2026
The clunky machine had around the same amount of computing power as a modern-day toaster.
From MarketWatch ● May 23, 2026
A thick cloud of humidity has settled in my tiny room, despite the best efforts of my clunky air-conditioning unit.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
To prepare for a cross-island fight, clunkier cannon artillery has made way for shoot-and-scoot Himars missile platforms, 16 of which arrived in Hawaii this year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 13, 2025
In reality, the transition towards that future is a little clunkier — and a little more fraught with questions about whether it’s the one we really want.
From Salon ● Jan. 22, 2024
The analytic mode of reasoning is clunkier and more time consuming, often exemplified by “reason, mathematics, and cost-benefit analysis,” says Slovic.
From National Geographic ● Aug. 17, 2023
The upshot is a Twitter that looks similar to the way it always has, but that is clunkier and less predictable in what tweets are surfaced and seen, users said.
From New York Times ● Apr. 7, 2023
As the National Hurricane Center and the World Meteorological Organization explain, affixing names makes things simpler for keeping track, beating the hay out of using something clunkier, such as, say, longitude-latitude coordinates.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 25, 2022
Even the dungeons, which are the clunkiest parts of the game, are inventive; they’re shopping malls rather than typical dungeons, and boast mundane objects like cellphones and TVs as enemies.
From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2021
Even at its clunkiest, it leaves you breathless at the heights of personal expression he achieved.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 2021
That is admittedly the film’s clunkiest line, meant to describe the technological power of the Grid, but representative of its largely uninspired screenplay.
From The Verge ● Oct. 18, 2017
It’s the fifth season at Tennessee for Butch Jones, and his 33-23 record just took on its clunkiest clunker.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 1, 2017
Even then, student accounts were invariably on the university's oldest, clunkiest machine.
From Underground by Suelette Dreyfus
