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clumsy ['klʌmzi]

a. 笨拙的, 不雅观的, 粗陋的

You clumsy oaf ---that's the second glass you've broken today.
你这个笨家伙!这是你今天打坏的第二个玻璃杯。
It's not easy walking in these clumsy shoes.
穿着这双笨重的鞋走路真难受。
Clumsy beast!
笨拙的畜生！

clumsy
clumsier, clumsiest

[ adj ]

lacking grace in movement or posture

<adj.all>

a gawky lad with long ungainly legs

clumsy fingers

what an ungainly creature a giraffe is

heaved his unwieldy figure out of his chair

not elegant or graceful in expression

<adj.all>

an awkward prose style

a clumsy apology

his cumbersome writing style

if the rumor is true, can anything be more inept than to repeat it now?

difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape

<adj.all>

an awkward bundle to carry

a load of bunglesome paraphernalia

clumsy wooden shoes

the cello, a rather ungainly instrument for a girl

showing lack of skill or aptitude

<adj.all>

a bungling workman

did a clumsy job

his fumbling attempt to put up a shelf

Clumsy \Clum"sy\, a. [Compar. {Clumsier}; superl. {Clumsiest}.]
[OE. clumsed benumbed, fr. clumsen to be benumbed; cf. Icel.
klumsa lockjaw, dial. Sw. klummsen benumbed with cold. Cf.
1st {Clam}, and 1st {Clamp}.]
1. Stiff or benumbed, as with cold. [Obs.]

2. 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.

But thou in clumsy verse, unlicked, unpointed,
Hast shamefully defied the Lord's anointed.
--Dryden.

Syn: See {Awkward}.

The vice president dislikes negative campaigning, and aides acknowledge he is clumsy at it.
Radical policies, centred around the notion of giving the poor a hand-up rather than a hand-out, must be pursued. There will always be clumsy starts, as with Britain's Child Support Agency, which pursues absent fathers for maintenance payments.
"This brutal and clumsy attempt to drive a wedge between the United States and the Philippines will fail," chief U.S. negotiator Richard Armitage said before the talks began.
Head has this character pinned down: fiddling, twitching, clumsy at dinner but deft in conversation. Around him the rest of the cast twitter through the dinner party and leave when they should.
The cast is excellent, especially Naughton as the well-meaning but clumsy dad, and Black as a smart kid grappling with the the confusion of adolescence.
It should fit perfectly and be so comfortable that lesser garments feel clumsy by comparison. Below this ideal of the tailor's craft, there are many levels of manufacture ranging from the perfectly respectable to the very depressing indeed.
If we were clumsy in our attempts to get up, we were inglorious in our attempts to ski down. 'I guess this is just what it must have been like between the wars in the Alps,' I said to Lucy.
But it suffered badly from a clumsy start to the campaign and its initial reluctance to spell out the benefits in detail. Many analysts dismiss Enterprise claims that the asset mix of a combined company would be complementary.
He was clumsy at times.
To some observers, Japanese investors are the rhinoceroses of the U.S. stock market: clumsy behemoths who indiscriminately pour large sums into household-name equities.
The 2 1/2-inch heels make me feel particularly clumsy.
Maurice N. Richlin, an Oscar-winning screenwriter of "Pillow Talk" who helped create the clumsy Inspector Clouseau in "The Pink Panther," has died of cancer.
Could Nezima's story be just clumsy propaganda?
All this California openness has given way to clumsy urban clutter.
There is now no sign of the science fiction jargon which dogged the MFP's early days, although officials continue to brush aside criticism of its clumsy name.
He complains of a clumsy bureaucracy, little autonomy for museum directors, and no adequate cataloguing of Italy's immense riches.
Mr Waldegrave's equation is that more efficient inputs will equal higher quality output. But he is not be helped by the clumsy construction of his department.
Memories of his involvement in a clumsy campaign during the Westland helicopter affair to discredit Mr Michael Heseltine, then UK defence secretary, might have faded.
Daphne du Maurier's diction is alternately clumsy and wooden; she has no ear for dialogue, an erratic sense of history and a weakness for stereotypes.
President Reagan, in a new attempt to rescue the clumsy U.S. effort to oust Gen.
This approach was quickly dropped as being financially clumsy. The government has since clarified its ideas and pushed Mr Guarino to the sidelines.
His clumsy handling of the latest incident, which involved a leading Palestinian terrorist who was allowed to fly to Paris for medical treatment, has sparked widespread talk that Mr. Mitterrand is a spent force.
Josh makes clumsy passes at Kate when she's seething with anger and fear, but we know from the outset that he's not a member of the evil patriarchy.
Judging of the annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest is about to begin, and the poor souls faced with the brain-numbing task of poring over thousands of convoluted, clumsy or just plain bad entries need something else to turn their stomachs.
The officials said the clumsy tactics may mean the Soviets won't be able to fulfill a pledge to have half of their 115,000 troops out of the country by Aug. 15.
Because tiny laser beams, rather than relatively clumsy electrodes, are used to switch the liquid crystals, in theory much finer screen patterns could be created with such methods.
"He's very clumsy when it comes to anything mechanical," she said.
Dialogue is a clumsy mix of modern and dated idioms which occasionally lapse into the ridiculous.
The federal government has been conspicuously clumsy and misguided at times.
Everyone else is a clumsy oaf." Matthau says he conducts the Los Angeles Mozart Orchestra and the Beverly Hills Symphony for "about 10 minutes" once a year.

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