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Recent Examples of clumsily
The men’s styles collide clumsily with Nashville’s party people, who are at least a decade younger and many drinks deeper.
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Rob Picheta,
CNN Money,
27 June 2026
In the Connecticut cases, as well as hundreds of similar cases around the country, the lawyers used software that produced what appeared to be somewhat clumsily written but otherwise solid legal briefs.
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Staff Report,
Hartford Courant,
26 June 2026
Angela can't stop fussing over the kitchen tidiness, while Joe struggles to relax, clumsily attempting to dance seductively for Piña.
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Olivia Singh,
Forbes.com,
26 June 2026
Social-media platforms are filled with short-form videos that clumsily grapple with stigmas surrounding height supremacy.
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Brady Brickner-Wood,
New Yorker,
4 June 2026
What was being clumsily promoted was a potentially transformative piece of technology — a way to evaluate player performance, in tune with an algorithm that had been taught to think like Capello himself.
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Jack Pitt-Brooke,
New York Times,
2 June 2026
Many of the new changes in this version are clumsily presented.
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Frank Rizzo,
Variety,
23 Apr. 2026
There are flying cars held at bay by the power of telekenesis and Park teleporting, as the crew clumsily accept their new ‘hero’ roles and attempt to take on the villains threatening the peace of Haeseong City.
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Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
22 Apr. 2026
This caused an already off-balance Adebayo to fall clumsily to the ground and land directly on his tailbone.
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Scott Fowler,
Charlotte Observer,
17 Apr. 2026
Rob Picheta,
CNN Money,
27 June 2026
In the Connecticut cases, as well as hundreds of similar cases around the country, the lawyers used software that produced what appeared to be somewhat clumsily written but otherwise solid legal briefs.
—
Staff Report,
Hartford Courant,
26 June 2026
Angela can't stop fussing over the kitchen tidiness, while Joe struggles to relax, clumsily attempting to dance seductively for Piña.
—
Olivia Singh,
Forbes.com,
26 June 2026
Social-media platforms are filled with short-form videos that clumsily grapple with stigmas surrounding height supremacy.
—
Brady Brickner-Wood,
New Yorker,
4 June 2026
What was being clumsily promoted was a potentially transformative piece of technology — a way to evaluate player performance, in tune with an algorithm that had been taught to think like Capello himself.
—
Jack Pitt-Brooke,
New York Times,
2 June 2026
Many of the new changes in this version are clumsily presented.
—
Frank Rizzo,
Variety,
23 Apr. 2026
There are flying cars held at bay by the power of telekenesis and Park teleporting, as the crew clumsily accept their new ‘hero’ roles and attempt to take on the villains threatening the peace of Haeseong City.
—
Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
22 Apr. 2026
This caused an already off-balance Adebayo to fall clumsily to the ground and land directly on his tailbone.
—
Scott Fowler,
Charlotte Observer,
17 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for clumsily
Adverb
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The collapse of the Constitution’s balance of powers between three branches of government got us into an unneeded war conducted ineptly.
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Dancing the Poznan really ineptly, mind you, but dancing nonetheless.
Adverb
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Balogun’s foot perched atop Muharemović’s awkwardly bent ankle.
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The Americans had to scramble after his foul for awkwardly stepping on Tarik Muharemovic and preserved the shutout despite playing short-handed for more than 30 minutes.
Adverb
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For starters, pulling it off requires running a computer script alongside the game, laboriously entering each round of color feedback into a separate application.
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Each was a career politician who spent decades laboriously climbing the government rungs before being elected governor.
Adverb
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After an arduously long winter, these narrow, modestly sized shops have been—with a suddenness and intensity that only TikTok and Instagram can foment—thronged.
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The team sequenced the DNA of 38 different mosquitoes belonging to 11 species within the Leucosphyrus group, which had been arduously collected during fieldwork between 1992 and 2020 across Southeast Asia.
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“Clumsily.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clumsily. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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