cumbrously
Example Sentences
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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
To the extent that it is run at all, it is controlled by one of the most cumbrously named offices in government: the Medical Services Administration of HEW's Social and Rehabilitation Service.
From Time Magazine Archive
In these two panels the leads are not so cumbrously intrusive, but there is a lesson which every glass artist should learn from an inspection of the carefully painted windows at Ecouen, Montmorency and Chantilly.
From Stained Glass Tours in France by Sherrill, Charles Hitchcock
