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Meanings of cumbersomeness in anglès

Trouble in carrying or managing caused by bulk or shape.

        Synonyms
        Examples for "awkwardness"
        Examples for "awkwardness"
        1
        There was an awkwardness building; we were struggling to find common ground.
        The Guardian
        2
        One of my colleagues was commenting on the awkwardness of this situation.
        Fire With Fire
        3
        The duke was the first to relieve the awkwardness of the moment.
        The Goose Girl
        4
        In movement and speech she was brisk to the point of awkwardness.
        The Information Officer
        5
        That was the major reason I avoided you myself, to avoid awkwardness.
        Knife of dreams
        1
        Even a sawed-off job had a certain unwieldiness compared to a handgun.
        Death angel
        2
        But, the collie, for all his years and unwieldiness, was still a collie.
        Further Adventures of Lad
        3
        The problem with the UK's three-pronged monster is its unwieldiness.
        Wired
        4
        At last, after days of painful crawling, I dragged my unwieldiness to the tree-foot.
        Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet: An Autobiography
        5
        Armies too large rot by their own unwieldiness into decay.
        Pausanias, the Spartan; The Haunted and the Haunters / An Unfini...
        Usage of cumbersomeness in anglès
        1
        De Chenu's exhibition has none of the cumbersomeness the title might suggest.
        The Irish Times
        2
        The ugly cumbersomeness of the furniture alone impressed her now.
        Night and Day
        3
        Owing to its cumbersomeness the old-fashioned way of handling it becomes obsolete, and new methods will have to be adopted and hydraulic machinery procured.
        Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 1
        Frequent collocations
        Cumbersomeness through the time