adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
rather
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The treatment of the inputs is rather clumsy .
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It looked rather clumsy but, when I swung it, it felt quite light.
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A wonderful defensive move which prevents ... b5 even though in other respects the rook lands on a rather clumsy square.
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Also, during my last year at Oxford, I had noticed that I was getting rather clumsy in my movements.
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They are all rather clumsy and fairly large, being distinguished from the parasols of the period by their short stumpy handles.
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And besides he repels me, so clumsy and big with his cat eyes.
■ NOUN
attempt
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Donna turned as Ryker came at her, avoiding his clumsy attempts to grab her.
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But of course he had, and my clumsy attempt to avoid detection only served to make the retribution fiercer.
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His clumsy attempt to distract her attention was all the warning she needed.
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Some swine had bashed the offside rear three-quarter in a very clumsy attempt to park behind me.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a clumsy camera
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a clumsy , shy thirteen-year-old boy
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a large man with big clumsy hands
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Andrew made a clumsy attempt to kiss her, but she pushed him away.
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Dana made a clumsy attempt to catch the ball.
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His writing is clumsy and unconvincing.
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I was so shy and clumsy when I was seventeen.
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I was tall and clumsy as a child, so I avoided sports.
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Paula always felt clumsy when she had to serve food to people.
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The show is a clumsy blend of news and entertainment.
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You clumsy idiot! Look what you've done to my car.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And I had always felt clumsy because the giving of cash in my own culture is tainted.
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But I am pretty clumsy so I had better not take up too many other sports.
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Fumbling, fingers clumsy in her panic, she dragged at the plastic retaining clips.
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Her big-boned body felt clumsy and she placed the tray on the coffee table with a loud clatter.
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It was like watching a clumsy remake of an old movie.
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It was only her thick-handed, clumsy way of helping me, advancing an imaginary project that obsesses her.
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When he left, the other actors offered him clumsy commiseration, as to some one who had been bereaved.
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Writing is downgraded as if it is a clumsy substitute for more efficient means of preserving data and the findings or conclusions.