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Frowningly, cumbrously, he boards the Caliban and settles in his cabin.

From Slate Jan. 15, 2013

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

Before it acquired its two incredible cylinders, it was cumbrously propelled by 500 sq. yds. of canvas.

From Time Magazine Archive

The mule appeared impressed by this, and backed cumbrously into a corner, from which he regarded Horace with a mistrustful, but attentive, eye.

From The Brass Bottle by F. Anstey




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