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He was called a good fellow,only a little lumpish,and as he was brave and faithful, he rose in time to be a shipmaster.
THE MINISTER'S WOOINGHARRIET BEECHER STOWEThe boys cast glance because it relieved their heaviness; things were lumpish and gloomy that day of the week.
LORD ORMONT AND HIS AMINTA, COMPLETEGEORGE MEREDITHAfter he had finished, I lay across the sloping cellar door, lumpish and still, inwardly a shaking jelly of horror.
TRAMPING ON LIFEHARRY KEMPThe great lumpish-looking heads and square-cut faces of the creatures looked frightful at this point in the fight.
FAST IN THE ICER.M. BALLANTYNEIt may be they will be as good as a pair of spurs to prick on thy lumpish heart in this rich journey.
THE HEAVENLY FOOTMANJOHN BUNYANIt seemed like some lumpish berg guarding an arctic, locked-up bay where ships lay dead.
SEA AND SARDINIAD. H. LAWRENCEDone in brute silence, with a lumpish look and a clumsy gait, the work was perfectly well done nevertheless.
THE LAW AND THE LADYWILKIE COLLINSWater-wheels, investors, steam-engines—and the lumpish lad all in a glow, talking away nineteen to the dozen.
ROBERT ELSMEREMRS. HUMPHRY WARDBut Enid was somehow languid, listless, even lumpish, and Mrs. Thompson did nearly all the looking and talking.
MRS. THOMPSONWILLIAM BABINGTON MAXWELLThere is Daddy, a lumpish person with some gift for playing Indian games when he is in the mood.
DANGER! AND OTHER STORIESARTHUR CONAN DOYLEWORDS RELATED TO LUMPISH
- all thumbs
- blundering
- blunderous
- bulky
- bumbling
- bungling
- butterfingered
- clownish
- crude
- elephantine
- gauche
- gawkish
- gawky
- graceless
- ham-handed
- heavy
- heavy-handed
- helpless
- hulking
- ill-shaped
- incompetent
- inelegant
- inept
- inexperienced
- inexpert
- lubberly
- lumbering
- lumpish
- maladroit
- oafish
- ponderous
- splay
- stumbling
- unable
- unadept
- uncoordinated
- uncouth
- undexterous
- uneasy
- ungainly
- unhandy
- unskillful
- untactful
- untalented
- untoward
- unwieldy
- weedy
- all thumbs
- amateurish
- artless
- blundering
- bulky
- bumbling
- bungling
- butterfingers
- clumsy
- coarse
- floundering
- gawky
- graceless
- green
- having two left feet
- having two left hands
- incompetent
- inept
- inexpert
- lumbering
- lumpish
- maladroit
- oafish
- rude
- stiff
- stumbling
- uncoordinated
- uncouth
- unfit
- ungainly
- ungraceful
- unhandy
- unpolished
- unrefined
- unskilled
- unskillful
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