Difficult to handle or use especially because of size or weight.
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Examples for "cumbersome "
Examples for "cumbersome "
1 Existing legislation is cumbersome , complicated and ineffective in our increasingly urban society.
2 That's one way to solve the storage problem, albeit a cumbersome one.
3 The structure of the proposed Public Services Standards Commission is unduly cumbersome .
4 However, the interpretation of shear modulus distribution is often confusing and cumbersome .
5 His enormous sea shells, cast in polished bronze, are cumbersome and costly.
1 After his death it was found that the machinery was too cumbrous .
2 The slippery old man perpetually eluded the cumbrous grasp of his antagonist.
3 A cumbrous disjointed sentence, but the thought of it is clear enough.
4 The colonies were more cumbrous , and opinion when expressed was necessarily representative.
5 He would not have wished a garrulous eulogy or a cumbrous epitaph.
6 We must remember that government is necessarily a cumbrous affair, however conducted.
7 It was more simple in its arrangement, and less cumbrous in its dimensions.
8 He dropped the cumbrous weapon Gregg had given him on to the bed.
9 His personality lost outline-mergingitself into the cumbrous uncouth being of the audience.
10 The man was now busy with it all, in a slow, cumbrous way.
11 The flat top of his cumbrous cylindrical helmet was unadorned with any crest.
12 In North America, cannon were generally too cumbrous for Indian fighting.
13 She also discarded the long, cumbrous domino, and I took it from her.
14 Monopolies can, although in rather cumbrous fashion, be broken up by law suits.
15 The latter again involved complex official organisation, cumbrous even if efficiently carried out.
16 The highly wrought and cumbrous saddle was evidently more for show than use.
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