(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.
Maladroit
Definition:
(a.) Of a quality opposed to adroitness; clumsy; awkward; unskillful.
Example Sentences:
(1) Later, Walcott did something similar to the maladroit Rooney.
(2) That does not surprise Lynda Shentall, a Gorton resident who led a campaign in 2002 to save the local swimming pool which, with remarkably maladroit timing, the council was closing because it said it could not maintain annual running costs of £75,000.
(3) Women The male grip on the top shadow cabinet jobs led to fury, a damaging and avoidable irony given that Corbyn has appointed more spokeswomen than men, and one that owes a great deal to maladroit media management.
(4) It was a poor decision by Andre Marriner, Turner's careless elbow maladroit rather than malicious.
(5) The Seattle Times called it Murray's “most maladroit move”.
(6) Or outlaw the surly barman who makes clear his distaste for all except the local drunks, and the maladroit waiter who inadvertently clips the diner's ear with the plate while serving soup.
(7) Helping maladroit adolescents achieve optimal potential is a challenge for physicians, educators, and others involved in their care.
(8) He described himself as "gauche, maladroit and sinister", on the lookout for an exit.
(9) Being maladroit in a society with increasing emphasis on performance is a formidable challenge to adolescent development.
(10) Harry's strop was both maladroit and inappropriate, to the extent that you might think his bark is worse than his bite.
(11) But it took Blair’s compromises with economic Thatcherism, his role in the Iraq war of 2003, maladroit Brown’s defeat in 2010, and the Cameron coalition’s austerity drive finally to alienate Labour’s core vote in Scotland.
(12) There has always been a sense of advocacy among those working with the adolescent whose exaggerated maladroitness stems from a problem with learning or attention.
(13) What emerges from the shameful way in which "debate" has been manipulated, is that the hold of the media over the imagination of the people is more circumscribed than its practitioners believe, so maladroit has been their management of political news.
(14) As host, Abbott greeted every foreign leader and his exchange with the Russian leader – hugely anticipated by the Australian media – descended to the farcical, with Putin giving a maladroit hand gesture that was liable to misinterpretation.
(15) Other causes include dubious feeding practices, diabetes mellitus, diabetes insipidus, and maladroit diagnostic and therapeutic maneuvers, including administration of radiologic contrast medium or hypertonic sodium bicarbonate or mannitol infusions, or the use of salt solutions as an emetic.