Definition of Clumsy

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Clumsy

Stiff or benumbed, as with cold.

Without skill or grace; wanting dexterity, nimbleness, or readiness; stiff; awkward, as if benumbed; unwieldy; unhandy; hence; ill-made, misshapen, or inappropriate; as, a clumsy person; a clumsy workman; clumsy fingers; a clumsy gesture; a clumsy excuse.

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As, Awkward, Benumbed, Clumsy, Cold, Dexterity, Excuse, Gesture, Grace, Hence, If, Inappropriate, Misshapen, Nimbleness, Or, Person, Readiness, Skill, Stiff, Unhandy, Unwieldy, Wanting, With, Without, Workman

Clumsy Quotations

What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!
Charles Darwin

If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts.
Ritchie Blackmore

A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.
Umberto Eco

I can do everything with ease on the stage, whereas in real life I feel too big and clumsy. So I didn't choose acting. It chose me.
Ingrid Bergman

History seems to be so clumsy.
Robert Johnson

International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge.
Rebecca West

The traditional mathematician recognizes and appreciates mathematical elegance when he sees it. I propose to go one step further, and to consider elegance an essential ingredient of mathematics: if it is clumsy, it is not mathematics.
Edsger Dijkstra

I wish I could blame it on the choreography, but it's not a musical. I just had a clumsy moment.
Delta Burke

There have been times when I reread - or at least leafed through - something because I'd sent a copy to a friend, and what usually happened was that I noticed dozens and dozens of clumsy phrases I wished I could rewrite.
Peter Straub

If I loved all the world as I do you, I shouldn't write books to it: I should only write letters to it, and that would be only a clumsy stage on the way to entire telepathy.
Laurence Housman

Clumsy Translations

clumsy in French is malhabile
clumsy in Hungarian is balkezes
clumsy in Spanish is desgraciado
clumsy in Swedish is tafatt, drumlig, oskicklig, klumpig

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