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Significados de cumbrous em inglês

Difficult to handle or use especially because of size or weight.

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Examples for "cumbersome"
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Existing legislation is cumbersome, complicated and ineffective in our increasingly urban society.
The Irish Times
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That's one way to solve the storage problem, albeit a cumbersome one.
Wired
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The structure of the proposed Public Services Standards Commission is unduly cumbersome.
The Irish Times
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However, the interpretation of shear modulus distribution is often confusing and cumbersome.
Pubmed
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His enormous sea shells, cast in polished bronze, are cumbersome and costly.
The Guardian
Uso de cumbrous em inglês
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After his death it was found that the machinery was too cumbrous.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series
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The slippery old man perpetually eluded the cumbrous grasp of his antagonist.
Eminent Victorians
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A cumbrous disjointed sentence, but the thought of it is clear enough.
Cyropaedia: The Education of Cyrus
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The colonies were more cumbrous, and opinion when expressed was necessarily representative.
Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs, Vol. 1
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He would not have wished a garrulous eulogy or a cumbrous epitaph.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859 / A Magaz...
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We must remember that government is necessarily a cumbrous affair, however conducted.
Civil Government in the United States Considered with Some Refer...
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It was more simple in its arrangement, and less cumbrous in its dimensions.
Men of Invention and Industry
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He dropped the cumbrous weapon Gregg had given him on to the bed.
Non-Stop
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His personality lost outline-mergingitself into the cumbrous uncouth being of the audience.
The Dark House
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The man was now busy with it all, in a slow, cumbrous way.
A Romany of the Snows, vol. 2 / Being a Continuation of the Pers...
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The flat top of his cumbrous cylindrical helmet was unadorned with any crest.
The Talisman
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In North America, cannon were generally too cumbrous for Indian fighting.
Artillery Through the Ages / A Short Illustrated History of Cann...
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She also discarded the long, cumbrous domino, and I took it from her.
The Yeoman Adventurer
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Monopolies can, although in rather cumbrous fashion, be broken up by law suits.
Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography
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The latter again involved complex official organisation, cumbrous even if efficiently carried out.
The Riddle of the Rhine: Chemical Strategy in Peace and War
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The highly wrought and cumbrous saddle was evidently more for show than use.
The Prairie
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