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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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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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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.
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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.
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“Ham-handedly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ham-handedly. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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