cumbrously
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Frowningly, cumbrously, he boards the Caliban and settles in his cabin.
From Slate ● Jan. 15, 2013
Before it acquired its two incredible cylinders, it was cumbrously propelled by 500 sq. yds. of canvas.
From Time Magazine Archive
With characteristic awkwardness the Cabinet decreed last week a verbose and complex measure cumbrously entitled "The First Ordinance for the execution of the Law for the Preparation of the Organic Reorganization of the German Economy."
From Time Magazine Archive
Ohio-born Dr. May, 49, a fellow of Manhattan's cumbrously named William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis and Psychology, got his Ph.D. from Columbia with a now classic thesis, The Meaning of Anxiety.
From Time Magazine Archive
When sweetmeats were offered them, they put out great red hands to take them, and felt themselves treading cumbrously like tight-coated soldiers among these soft instinctive people.
From The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf
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