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Meanings of clumsy in inglês
Not elegant or graceful in expression.
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Examples for "fumbling"
Examples for "fumbling"
1
Finally, after a good deal of fumbling about she approached the proprietor.
2
Is Labour fumbling the political football when it comes to Maori voters?
3
In his confused fumbling for a name he'd almost said Starship Enterprise.
4
For a moment I thought he was just fumbling the bottleback sushi.
5
It's often an embarrassing, fumbling-in-the-dark experience or a bit of an anti-climax.
1
You simply can't trust this incompetent Tory-led government with the nation's forests.
2
I am therefore, of course, as John affirmed, a very incompetent biographer.
3
Many Britons regard the EU as an incompetent, spendthrift source of bureaucracy.
4
Thus far in our index, Swansea have not done anything incompetent whatsoever.
5
He is very proud and quite incompetent, which is a dangerous combination.
1
One of the world's richest countries, they said, was bungling its response.
2
Republican and Democratic lawmakers condemned the IRS for bungling the review process.
3
But English cricket has a history of unfathomable decisions and bungling administrators.
4
She was built of planks sewn together in a very bungling manner.
5
They did a bungling bit of work, and the cylinders have overheated.
Usage of clumsy in inglês
1
The top bolt was within easy reach of his clumsy right paw.
2
It was the crisis, and into it Mollie intruded with clumsy tread.
3
Its confusion rendered it clumsy; and the mistake cost it its life.
4
My work boots felt way too clumsy with their thick rubber soles.
5
For a moment Powell yearned to blast this well-meaning clumsy young normal.
6
Jumping can be clumsy and could be a problem in this context.
7
A moment later, the Grunt lines came to a clumsy halt, confused.
8
Because it is a clumsy fabrication which simply could not be true.
9
The laws were clear and simple, the mechanical interpretations clumsy and contradictory.
10
It inhabits trees, but is very clumsy in appearance and in action.
11
It is a clumsy imitation of the policy of Frederick in 1756.
12
The spat reveals clumsy links among old media, new media and Washington.
13
Many were shocked by clumsy reactions by public figures to Strauss-Kahn's arrest.
14
The established pleasures were clumsy and tiresome-looking; but one could eschew them.
15
He answers it in a painstaking, rather clumsy hand: but he manages.
16
Ayla stopped and was watching a herd of the strange, clumsy-looking animals.
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Clumsy across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
South Africa
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Australia
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