clunky
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Rings are certainly less obtrusive than a smartwatch, many of which are pretty darn clunky.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026
The Trojans managed a clunky 12-play opening drive, with King Miller doing most of the heavy lifting, but were forced to settle for a field goal.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
Arsenal were a bit clunky last time out against Aston Villa, while I love what Xabi Alonso is doing at Chelsea.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
Both Garmin and Google’s Fitbit Air let you export raw files of activities to other platforms, whereas other wearables require clunky workarounds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
Mrs. Janssen's armoire looks clunky and heavy, made of oak.
From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse
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
A 2021 Neuralink presentation of a monkey playing the video game Pong with his mind was similar to a primate demonstration at Brown University in 2001, though it had a far clunkier system.
From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2022
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
Part of it is Sullivan’s brusque direction, which speeds through some character-building dialogue then lingers on scenes that have the clunkiest exposition.
From New York Times ● Nov. 4, 2021
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
With “Mean Girls,” “Dear Evan Hansen” and “The Prom” already exploring in up-tempo dance numbers the vicissitudes of outcast adolescents, “Be More Chill” enters Broadway’s highest-occupancy lane, in the clunkiest vehicle of them all.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 10, 2019
Even then, student accounts were invariably on the university's oldest, clunkiest machine.
From Underground by Suelette Dreyfus
