What's the difference between clumsily and crudely?
Clumsily
Definition:
(adv.) In a clumsy manner; awkwardly; as, to walk clumsily.
Example Sentences:
(1) The government has blamed a clumsily worded press release for the furore, denying there would be random checks of the public.
(2) He changes the subject in a way that is clumsily endearing yet explains why he sometimes had trouble communicating his heartfelt vision to the public.
(3) The palace also reached clumsily for the Scottish card.
(4) I finally found my trusty rubber friend amongst kirby grips and tissues, and clumsily put it on, adding buoyantly: “I’m really looking forward to this!” Everything was then going tickety-boo until my rubber friend went off-piste and wedged itself stubbornly somewhere between my cervix and uterus.
(5) Patrice Evra had more reason than most to be grateful to Payet after clumsily bringing down Nicolae Stanciu to give away the penalty that brought Romania level nine minutes after Olivier Giroud had given France a second-half lead.
(6) The King Jacob stopped 100 metres from the marooned boat, whose captain – believed to be a Tunisian – manoeuvred clumsily in the dark, ramming the Portuguese boat.
(7) Joleon Lescott last weekend irked supporters by clumsily saying relegation was a “weight off the shoulders”.
(8) That ill-fated effort was bedeviled with missteps, including a question about climate change clumsily planted with an Iowan college student .
(9) He's now clattered clumsily into the back of Matuidi.
(10) "First Gadzhi joined them and then Ramzan, who danced clumsily with his gold-plated automatic stuck down in the back of his jeans … Both Gadzhi and Ramzan showered the dancing children with $100 bills; the dancers probably picked upwards of US$5,000 off the cobblestones."
(11) Some species are eliminated through sheer human carelessness, as we clumsily attempt to mould the world in our image.
(12) I'm not convinced I'm much help, clumsily treading water in my flippers, but Moi takes charge and soon we have a few dozen fish, which he chops up for us to eat raw.
(13) 3.29am GMT Half-time: Seattle 1-0 Colorado Half-time thoughts in a moment 3.29am GMT 45 mins +3 Harris picks up the Rapids second yellow as he clatters in clumsily in pursuit of the ball.
(14) Swansea looked like they might cling on but with the clock ticking down Àngel Rangel clumsily bundled into Firmino and Milner made no mistake from the spot.
(15) But then O'Sullivan plays down table and clumsily watches his top spin take the cueball in off and into the bottom left corner pocket.
(16) Sing If You Can is so very terrible that when it clumsily cuts from Lisa Maxwell being dangled in a rubbish bin singing The Only Way Is Up to shots of children with terrible illnesses, they genuinely lift my spirits.
(17) After a first-half in which Bojan Krkic, making his first start for eight months, was inspirational, a penalty clumsily conceded by Marko Arnautovic gave the visitors hope, before Jamie Vardy , with his third goal in as many games, opportunistically secured the draw.
(18) Through my viewfinder I am watching Ataqullah clumsily struggling to take his first steps on the new plastic leg while his shattered arm swings beside him.
(19) Updated at 9.47pm BST 9.46pm BST 43 min: Zuniga rather clumsily clatters into Neymar as the former jinks around a bit down the inside left.
(20) Perez is hacked down by Vlaar, clumsily rather than maliciously, 25 yards out, just to the right of goal.
Crudely
Definition:
(adv.) In a crude, immature manner.
Example Sentences:
(1) Life expectancy and the infant mortality rate are considered more useful from an operational perspective and for comparisons than is the crude death rate because they are not influenced by age structure.
(2) While the reduced form of the "derived" polyphenolic compounds, generated during tissue homogenization, appeared to enhance dye binding with bovine serum albumin, their influence on the protein assay directly in crude homogenates was extremely diverse.
(3) Slight cross-reactivity was apparent when crude preparations of cellular or culture filtrate antigens, used in this laboratory to detect antibodies to Candida albicans, Coccidioides immitis and Cryptococcus neoformans, were probed with hyperimmune rabbit antisera to A. fumigatus.
(4) The crude survival rate at 5 years was 83.3% (age-adjusted 96%), and at 10 years 53.8%).
(5) VS had a crude topography, and receptive fields of neurons in VS were relatively large.
(6) With [125I-Tyr11]SRIF as a radiolabeled ligand, the specific ligand binding to crude membrane increased transiently in the early phase of postnatal development and then decreased.
(7) Dialyzed crude enzyme extracts from yeast cells were found to destroy diacetyl in a manner quite similar to that of diacetyl reductase from Aerobacter aerogenes, and both the bacterial and the yeast extracts were stimulated significantly by the addition of reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NADH).
(8) A crude extract of Brucella melitensis was obtained by sonication, centrifugation and dialysis, and analyzed by quantitative immunoelectrophoresis.
(9) These results indicate that countercurrent distribution of crude extracts in aqueous two-phase systems is a useful method to study protein-protein interaction.
(10) Optimal myocyte cultures were obtained using serial 0.2% crude trypsin digestions of hearts from 1-2-day-old rats.
(11) Their defect in DNA degradation was shown not only after treatment by toluene but also in crude extracts after cell disintegration by ultrasonic and in untreated starved cultures.
(12) On subfractionation of this crude mitochondrial fraction with continuous sucrose density gradients, most of the activity of the three enzymes was found at a higher density than NAD+-isocitrate dehydrogenase and at about the same density as glutamate dehydrogenase, confirming earlier reported data for acetyl-CoA synthase.
(13) A crude membrane fraction derived from the mutant is unable to synthesize cardiolipin from phosphatidylglycerol in vitro.
(14) DNA membrane complexes from sucrose gradients, as well as the crude M-band preparation and a non-membrane-associated DNA fraction from nuclei can synthesize DNA in vitro without the addition of an external DNA template or DNA polymerase.
(15) Specificity of [125I]hCG binding to other tissues was determined by incubating crude membrane preparations of heart, skeletal muscle, liver, and kidney.
(16) Binding experiments of cyclic AMP on crude extract of dog thyroid lead to the conclusion that the maximal capacity of the specific binding site is close to the cyclic AMP content in resting thyroid cells.
(17) Interaction between these acceptor sites and crude or partially purified estradiol receptor shows a high association constant (over 10(9) M).
(18) The extent of sialomucin adjacent to a primary colorectal cancer does provide a crude assessment of tumour invasiveness and risk of local recurrence.
(19) Effects of 4-aminomethyl-1-benzylpyrrolidin-2-one-hemifumarate (WEB 1881 FU), a novel pyrrolidinone nootropic, on acetylcholine (ACh) receptors and adrenoceptors were investigated using crude membranes of the rat brain.
(20) By immunoaffinity chromatography using the immunoadsorbent, approximately 25% of crude enterotoxin applied was recovered in the eluate.