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adjective

Clumsy adj. (compar. clumsier; superl. clumsiest)

Stiff or benumbed, as with cold. (Obs.)

Without skill or grace; wanting dexterity, nimbleness, or readiness; stiff; awkward, as if benumbed; unwieldy; unhandy; hence; ill-made, misshapen, or inappropriate; as, a clumsy person; a clumsy workman; clumsy fingers; a clumsy gesture; a clumsy excuse. "But thou in clumsy verse, unlicked, unpointed, Hast shamefully defied the Lord's anointed."

Synonyms: See Awkward.

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Etymology of 'Clumsy'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Clumsy" Quotes from Famous Books

... went on, an odd tremor in his voice. "It is wonderful. It is—why, it is beautiful, Anne. I could not have dreamed that such a change,—What has become of everything? What have you done with all the big, clumsy, musty things that—" ...

— From the Housetops • George Barr McCutcheon

... never occurred to the widow it could be at her own airs and affectations, which were a very clumsy imitation of Elsie's childish grace; she was too thoroughly satisfied with her own powers of fascination to suppose it possible, even for an instant, that she could ...

— A Noble Woman • Ann S. Stephens

... de Tonnai-Charente. Such elegiac effusions seemed to me unspeakably ridiculous; they should have explained matters earlier, while the lists were still open. For persons of this sort I conceived aversion, who were actually so clumsy as to dare to tell me that they had forgotten to ask ...

— The Memoirs of Madame de Montespan, Complete • Madame La Marquise De Montespan

... friendly. He had played among the rocks and pebbles and sand where it was made. His courage came back, and he rose up on his legs, and made his way toward it. Something inside him told him to go quietly, but his feet were big and clumsy, and half a dozen times in the next two minutes he stumbled on his nose. At last he came to the stream, scarcely wider than a man might have reached across, rippling and plashing its way through the naked roots of trees. And ahead of him Peter saw light. He quickened ...

— The Country Beyond - A Romance of the Wilderness • James Oliver Curwood

... (treeing it, as they term it in America), or any other defence which may offer. Now, it is evident that, skilled as all the Americans are in fire-arms, and generally using rifles, a disciplined English soldier, with his clumsy musket, fights at a disadvantage; and, therefore, with due submission to his Grace, the Duke of Wellington was very wrong when he stated, the other day in the House of Lords, that the militia of Canada should be disbanded, and their place supplied by regular troops from England. ...

— Diary in America, Series One • Frederick Marryat (AKA Captain Marryat)

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