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Meanings of unwieldiness in anglès

Trouble in carrying or managing caused by bulk or shape.

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        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
        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
        Usage of unwieldiness in anglès
        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...
        6
        But I must dwell discreetly on one compelling and obvious cause-theincreased and increasing unwieldiness of Knowledge.
        On The Art of Reading
        7
        The smaller form factor could appeal to audiences that don't want the unwieldiness that comes with extra screen real estate.
        Wired
        8
        This huge library, growing into unwieldiness, threatening to become a trackless desert of print-how intolerably it weighed upon the spirit!
        New Grub Street
        9
        To conclude, they gently touched upon the weight and unwieldiness of the garment, which they insinuated might be of great use.
        Isaac Bickerstaff, Physician and Astrologer
        10
        TO AVOID unwieldiness of bulk this edition of the 'Fragments' is published in two volumes, instead of, as heretofore, in one.
        Fragments of Science: A Series of Detached Essays, Addresses, an...
        11
        But about Bull Hunter there was a suggestion of ponderous unwieldiness, and there was none of that suggestion about Hal Dunbar.
        Bull Hunter
        12
        Yet the narrow-beamed Fuegian craft she was in would hold only four more occupants, and that with a certain risk and unwieldiness.
        The Captain of the Kansas
        13
        It was not our mere vagueness of understanding, it was the unwieldiness of our senses, of our reply to the suddenness of the grown up.
        Ceres' Runaway, and Other Essays
        14
        But while some other female commissioners say they agree with the proposal's objective, some say its unwieldiness could kill off much-needed debate on gender inequality.
        Reuters
        15
        Unwieldiness is always going to be the thing that stops some of the currently modish terminology catching on.
        The Guardian
        16
        'See to the gates, Charles,' he cried, almost springing, spite of his unwieldiness, from his chair.
        St. George and St. Michael, Volume 3
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