(superl.) Without skill or grace; wanting dexterity, nimbleness, or readiness; stiff; awkward, as if benumbed; unwieldy; unhandy; hence; ill-made, misshapen, or inappropriate; as, a clumsy person; a clumsy workman; clumsy fingers; a clumsy gesture; a clumsy excuse.
Example Sentences:
(1) In both, objective aggravation occurred in three or more steps over four days, progressing from minor finger clumsiness to total paralysis of the arm.
(2) Since she was 25-year-old, she had had insomnia which accompanied by choked feelings, palpitations, clumsiness of hands and anxiety.
(3) Salmond and his finance secretary, John Swinney, have pushed for Scotland to be given control over corporation tax, excise duties and greater borrowing powers in the new bill, but those measures were rejected as ill thought out and clumsy by the UK government and Labour.
(4) The problem is that, whilst severely affected children can be readily recognized, identification of mildly and moderately clumsy children is difficult.
(5) Clumsy US tactics and policies exacerbated a deteriorating situation.
(6) Several lines from the 1984 song were heavily criticised here and in Africa for being clumsy and patronising, including the one about no rivers flowing in Africa – the continent of the Nile, Congo and Niger.
(7) Ethanol impaired performance in most objective tests and produced clumsiness, muzziness, and mental slowness, but little drowsiness.
(8) The unfairly maligned camel is a model of sleek, practical and elegant design compared with the clumsy creature the coalition has produced.
(9) The arcane wiring when electricity came along, the subsequent clumsy rewiring; the cheap flat conversion in the 1960s; the constant saga of patch and mend from occupants who never have the money or vision to remake the whole thing from scratch - all this, and more, was paralleled on the WCML on an enormous scale.
(10) It is difficult to comprehend the logic of expecting improvements in this agenda while withdrawing half a billion dollars in funding to many service agencies, and leaving them poised precariously at the mercy of a clumsy and poorly executed “advancement” strategy.
(11) DZ but not O 60 was reported to have caused lethargy and clumsiness during subchronic treatment.
(12) A nine year-old girl admitted to our hospital complaining of clumsiness of hands and walking, disability of reading, headache and vomiting.
(13) Her main project is new girl Tai (the late Brittany Murphy) who arrives at school as a clumsy, unconfident "ugly duckling" ripe for making over – allowing the film to indulge in that wonderful 80s teen movie trope: the dressing up montage.
(14) Clinical syndromes were classified according to Fisher's criteria into pure motor hemiparesis (PM), sensorimotor stroke (SM) and ataxic hemiparesis (AH) including dysarthria clumsy hand syndrome.
(15) Observations by parents and teachers rated the clumsy children inferior to their controls in writing, sporting ability and clumsiness.
(16) Even if the move seemed dictatorial in the short term, it served to enshrine a constitution that in the long-term actually curtails Morsi's power – which to the Brotherhood makes his actions well-intentioned, if clumsy.
(17) The children with learning disabilities were divided into two groups--"clumsy" and "nonclumsy"--based on their scores on the motor impairment test.
(18) Fulham were furious in 2012 when Liverpool's attempt to take Clint Dempsey from them saw the Merseyside club deliver clumsy bulletins.
(19) Analysis of the data indicated that, as expected, the clumsy children with learning disabilities scored significantly lower than the children without learning disabilities (the control group).
(20) Abnormal clumsiness in otherwise normal children has often been associated with both perceptual and motor defects, but the cause of this problem remains unclear.
Lubber
Definition:
(n.) A heavy, clumsy, or awkward fellow; a sturdy drone; a clown.
Example Sentences:
(1) 12.25pm: "Björn Lubbers mentioned in his email you posted at 10am that 'the Dutchies are a very friendly, hospitable and tolerant people, but humans will be humans and idiots will be idiots ...', emails Karin Prill.
(2) Meanwhile the Ceres report, launched by its president Mindy Lubber, highlights not only the widespread environmental and social impact of oil sands development, but also the high production costs and limited market for this fuel, for which companies have committed $200 billion in investments.
(3) Whether it was leaning through the ropes to interview Ali, as he famously did between rounds during a one-sided fight for "The Greatest" against the Dutchman Rudi Lubbers, or coming up with quips such as "the ego has landed" as Hamed somersaulted over the ropes to enter the ring, Reg always managed to remember that he was entertaining his audience.
(4) Cynthia Brzak An American employee of the UN High Commission for Refugees who accused the high commissioner at the time, the former Dutch minister Ruud Lubbers, of sexual harassment in May 2004.
(5) Björn Lubbers: "Karin [12.25pm], you're absolutely right.
(6) Ruud Lubbers, the former Dutch prime minister, is also attending.
(7) Lubbers resigned in 2005 after the report was leaked, showing the investigation upheld Brzak's complaint.
(8) Mindy Lubber, president of Ceres, said the action by the banks and the food industry, along with China’s promise to enact a cap-and-trade program to curb climate emissions, are beginning to shift the debate in the US.
(9) Two neuropeptides with adipokinetic activity in Locusta migratoria and hypertrehalosaemic activity in Periplaneta americana were purified by high-performance liquid chromatography from the corpus cardiacum of the lubber grasshopper, Romalea microptera.
(10) Mindy Lubber , president of Ceres, a global coalition of investors concerned about climate change, said the secretary general’s decision to attend the march “sent a very important signal” about the importance of the summit.
(11) 10am: "Hi from a German living in the Netherlands," begins Björn Lubbers.
(12) The condition of skin autografts and allografts in rats and rabbits was checked by transcutaneous PO2 measurement according to R. HUCH, D. W. LUBBERS and A. HUCH.
(13) But given the staunch opposition to climate action among Republican party leaders, finding a pathway to congressional action will take time, Lubber acknowledged.
(14) Mindy Lubber is president of Ceres , a nonprofit organization mobilizing business and investor leadership on climate change and other global sustainability threats Read more stories like this: UN Climate Summit must show climate change action is in everyone’s interests World on track to be 4C warmer by 2100 because of missed carbon targets Advertisement Feature : 3 structural changes needed for a sustainable financial sector The finance hub is funded by EY.
(15) An octadecapeptide capable of inducing pigment dispersion in the chromatophores of the fiddler crab Uca pugilator has been isolated from lyophilized heads of the lubber grasshopper Romalea microptera.
(16) Who better than Exxon Mobil to start answering the tough questions about the inevitable transition to a low-carbon global economy?” Mindy Lubber, president of the green investor network Ceres, said.