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Meanings of unwieldy in English
Difficult to use or handle or manage because of size or weight or shape.
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Examples for "unmanageable"
Examples for "unmanageable"
1
The propeller gathered in the net and it rendered her practically unmanageable.
2
Amplified increasingly by climate change, those stresses threaten soon to become unmanageable.
3
The company had faced unmanageable debt maturities over the next two years.
4
Servants and subordinate agents in England are quite unmanageable in these respects.
5
The more products Blackboard added or acquired, the more unmanageable it became.
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However the days of the big, clunky, clam shell contraptions are gone.
2
The new Bose are brilliant, just forget about the overly clunky name.
3
Power flows through a rather clunky brick with a dedicated, cylindrical plug.
4
We're constantly getting some clunky plastic thing they decided to make pink.
5
Wearing purely comfort kicks can feel clunky or sloppy on hard routes.
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She reached out, grasped his shoulder, and stopped his gawky, long-legged strides.
2
But he was like a big, gawky teenager, new to his strength.
3
Between the zits and the gawky-elongated build, Dawes looked like a teenager.
4
Thought about him as a tall gawky eighteen-year-old, just off to West Point.
5
A moment later and the gawky Russian was transformed, gliding through the backwash.
Usage of unwieldy in English
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Its 19-member board looked unwieldy and reluctant to challenge management, investors said.
2
But not too simple: That's a market the unwieldy throw-bots have cornered.
3
German supervisory boards, which usually have 20 members, tend to be unwieldy.
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It made them into a unit for her, however unwieldy and unreliable.
5
Each entry listed the planet under its unwieldy and foreign-sounding new name.
6
The doors bend in the middle as they open, heavy and unwieldy.
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Prince has resisted this, but many portfolio managers believe Citigroup is unwieldy.
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They kept the crew busy guiding the unwieldy boat out of danger.
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But even from the beginning we didn't want such an unwieldy entity.
10
Already the two blacks stationed there were pushing the unwieldy portals to.
11
The other had by now heaved his unwieldy frame from the chair.
12
His figure was unhandsome, and the action of his unwieldy limbs awkward.
13
The body has then become too unwieldy for that which animates it.
14
To the boy it had always seemed such a huge, unwieldy thing.
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The unwieldy monster seemed to be no match for his nimble antagonists.
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She worried that it wasn't enough, that it was too unwieldy .
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