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Example sentences for: clumsy

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One does not necessarily expect literary elegance in a book written by an academic, but there is no need to be clumsy.
.. [but] by no means outrageous,” a third as “verbose or stilted,” and a fourth as “containing wording and punctuation that is clumsy, ambiguous, and redundant.”
I've never met a psychiatrist clumsy enough to use the words "Oedipal conflict" with a patient, let alone to explain it by invoking Sophocles, but this dumb bit is worth it to watch De Niro blanch, shake his head in disgust at the thought of Oedipus and his mom, and exclaim, "Fuckin' Greece."
Gore was also clumsy in the way he constantly invoked his close friend and partner Bill Clinton.
Richardson schmoozes well, but his negotiations with Myanmar, North Korea, the Congo--and now Iraq--have been clumsy and ineffective.