What's the difference between clumsily and lumber?
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.
Lumber
Definition:
(n.) A pawnbroker's shop, or room for storing articles put in pawn; hence, a pledge, or pawn.
(n.) Old or refuse household stuff; things cumbrous, or bulky and useless, or of small value.
(n.) Timber sawed or split into the form of beams, joists, boards, planks, staves, hoops, etc.; esp., that which is smaller than heavy timber.
(b. t.) To heap together in disorder.
(b. t.) To fill or encumber with lumber; as, to lumber up a room.
(v. i.) To move heavily, as if burdened.
(v. i.) To make a sound as if moving heavily or clumsily; to rumble.
(v. i.) To cut logs in the forest, or prepare timber for market.
Example Sentences:
(1) Consider the open joke that was the repeated European bank stress tests ; the foot-dragging of the central bankers to quell financial panic; the IMF report last week showing that even if Greece took the troika’s medicine it would still be lumbered with “unsustainable” debt .
(2) Why, then, lumber quality papers that already believe in compliance with the enhanced cost of monitoring the Star and Express ?
(3) The ability to use cyclitols as a sole source of carbon can explain the high cell densities of Klebsielleae in redwood water reservoirs and in redwood lumber.
(4) If the Spaniard’s bad luck in hitting a post was expected, the sight of Stambouli, a lumbering figure in the first 45 minutes, confidently sweeping home the rebound certainly prompted a double take.
(5) A gritty town battered by the decline of its lumber industry, it is mocked as hicksville by its rival, snootier neighbour, the university city Eugene, which Groening renamed Shelbyville.
(6) This study addresses 27 patients who had undergone their first lumber discoidectomy and never had any contact with psychiatry.
(7) At times the two had fun simply passing to each other, making jokes about Carsten Jancker as the huge striker lumbered after the ball.
(8) Across this relatively peaceful corner of the Horn of Africa, where black-headed sheep scamper among the thorn bushes, dainty gerenuk balance on their hind legs to nibble from hardy shrubs, and skinny camels wearing rough-hewn bells lumber over rocky slopes, people long accustomed to a harsh environment find they cannot cope after years of below-average rainfall.
(9) The thinktank claims that independence would allow Scotland to radically overhaul and improve on the UK's lumbering and inefficient tax system, but it would face tough choices on how to balance its books.
(10) All were localized in or below the apical vertebra in the lumber or the lower thoracic spine.
(11) While Jackie, 43, titivates her fleet of irritable lapdogs, David, 74, lumbers around like an elderly labrador in beige utility shorts, barking about third parties and negative equity into his mobile headset, one ear forever scanning the distance for the elusive squawk of an incremental loan agreement.
(12) It enables the flow of CSF in response to pressure pulses to be measured whilst allowing the simultaneous measurement of pressure through a lumber puncture needle.
(13) The literatures of spinal epidural hematoma located in the thoraco-lumber region were reviewed.
(14) For males, positive associations were observed for chewing pine products and for employment in the lumber and textile industries.
(15) I took a lot of pictures of him and there's one where he's wearing my lumber jacket and I just knew he was going to make it.
(16) Design and technology is struggling to shake off a dreary image and is lumbered with a perception that it is secondary to so-called academic subjects.
(17) "I've had a lot more fun watching and arguing about the Twilight movies than I ever had with the Star Wars saga, that lumbering, narratively hobbled space opera," he blasphemed recently .
(18) Until there is a complete clearout, I think that this company will lumber from one quarter to the next and present no real vision about how it becomes a proper technology company again."
(19) The centre of gravity in the global economy has moved from Europe , which looks old-fashioned and lumbering in a world of rapid innovation and loose networks.
(20) One fraction from the aqueous extract of the lumber induced a positive skin test, Prausnitz-Kustner test and the inhalation test.