cumbrous

Example Sentences

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The Road Home Program, a state program supposed to help rebuild, was cumbrous and slow, and grants often didn’t cover the cost of repairs.

From Washington Times • Sep. 1, 2017

This cumbrous and costly apparatus kept the field to itself for some time.”

From Salon • Feb. 23, 2014

Set in a luxuriant landscape — 11,000 acres of swaying sugar cane, and terrain resembling an upside-down egg carton — is cumbrous industrial equipment for producing spirits.

From New York Times • Feb. 21, 2014

John Gielgud, playing Othello at Stratford in 1961, was less happy, complaining that Hall's costumes were "beautiful but cumbrous" and that the elaborate production stalled while Zeffirelli leafed through "his damned press cuttings".

From The Guardian • Jun. 24, 2010

Only the cumbrous irony of his tone made her feel unreal herself—made her unable to put her own words simply.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White