What's the difference between clumsily and stumble?
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.
Stumble
Definition:
(v. i.) To trip in walking or in moving in any way with the legs; to strike the foot so as to fall, or to endanger a fall; to stagger because of a false step.
(v. i.) To walk in an unsteady or clumsy manner.
(v. i.) To fall into a crime or an error; to err.
(v. i.) To strike or happen (upon a person or thing) without design; to fall or light by chance; -- with on, upon, or against.
(v. t.) To cause to stumble or trip.
(v. t.) Fig.: To mislead; to confound; to perplex; to cause to err or to fall.
(n.) A trip in walking or running.
(n.) A blunder; a failure; a fall from rectitude.
Example Sentences:
(1) Former acting director of the CIA, Michael Morell, also weighed in for Clinton in a New York Times opinion piece on Friday, declaring: “Donald J Trump is not only unqualified for the job, but he may well pose a threat to our national security.” Republicans stumbling from the wreckage of a terrible week are worrying about how to contain the damage further down the ballot paper in November as people running for seats in Congress and at state level risk being swept away.
(2) On Saturday I made my second trip to the campsite in Lower Stumble – my first journey was on 28 July.
(3) 11.10pm BST Apart from the stumbles in the sales pitch, it's still not clear how the Abbott government will secure most of its budget.
(4) CBS, which says it stumbled across its advance copy in a bookstore, happens to own the book's publisher, Simon & Schuster.
(5) However, the main stumbling block is the increasingly chronic shortage of many different types of medical staff – nurses, GPs, paramedics, radiologists, A&E doctors and many others – that the NHS is facing.
(6) The surprise move came after Tuesday's much-noticed stumble, when the US supreme court chief justice, John Roberts, jumbled the words, prompting Obama to follow suit.
(7) Myners – a non-executive director of Co-op group – was also scathing in his assessment of the board members after asking them a simple retail question and likening their inability to answer to that of Paul Flowers, former chairman of the Co-op bank, who had stumbled over basic questions posed by the Treasury select committee last year.
(8) Unfortunately, a lack of knowledge regarding the field among the general public and within the medical community as well functions as a major stumbling block to the growth of our profession.
(9) He may not be the greatest orator, sometimes stressing the wrong word in a sentence or stumbling over his Autocue, and he may not deliver media-managed soundbites with the ease that the PM does, but he is good with the public.
(10) Polls opened at 4am across the country, which suffered decades of army-led dictatorship followed by a stumbling reform process.
(11) Just a stepover here, a Cruyff turn there, and his opponent would be destroyed ... Only in real life, Boruc stumbled and bumbled and Olivier Giroud pounced to score.
(12) In the most uncomfortable and revelatory moments, Cameron stumbled as he was asked whether he saw Brooks every weekend in 2008 and 2009, before his wife Samantha told him in the lunchtime break that they had met every six weeks, or a bit more.
(13) He was like the man with staring eyes who stumbled up and down Oxford Street with a placard declaring the end of the world to be nigh.
(14) So intense was the pre‑match excitement in Dortmund over the return of the prodigal Jürg – much of it media-led – that walking around this flat, functional city on the afternoon of the game you half expected to stumble across Klopp shrines, New Orleans-style Klopp jazz funerals, to look up and find his great beaming visage looming over the city like some vast alien saucer.
(15) It is essential, therefore, that a legal agreement is agreed at the COP21 talks in order to create a process after Paris through which countries will review their efforts and find ways to ramp up their actions on reducing emissions.” A major stumbling block facing negotiators at Paris will be finance.
(16) Poyet will feel infinitely worse should Sunderland stumble once again at Spurs.
(17) There are pages where, unexpectedly, amid the horror, a reader feels he has stumbled on a near-inconsequential diary entry.
(18) She stumbled to her door, but found she could not walk out; she had to crawl as the ground swayed beneath her.
(19) Diane Abbott will continue to be a key figurehead in Labour’s general election campaign, the party has indicated, despite a stumbling radio performance in which she struggled to explain how a pledge to hire 10,000 extra police officers would be funded.
(20) But in that case, it will inevitably be harder to re-establish confidence in the intelligence on which the White House is basing its decisions, and the world's sole superpower risks stumbling onwards half-blind, unable to distinguish real threats from phantoms.