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Definition of Clumsy

Clumsy

Stiff or benumbed, as with cold.

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.

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Clumsy Quotations

What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!
Charles Darwin

I can do everything with ease on the stage, whereas in real life I feel too big and clumsy. So I didn't choose acting. It chose me.
Ingrid Bergman

If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts.
Ritchie Blackmore

International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge.
Rebecca West

I'm not clumsy, I'm accident-prone!
Daniel Radcliffe

A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.
Umberto Eco

I'm the most uncoordinated clumsy, klutzy person. I always had a bruise, I always tripped and fell.
Katherine Heigl

The traditional mathematician recognizes and appreciates mathematical elegance when he sees it. I propose to go one step further, and to consider elegance an essential ingredient of mathematics: if it is clumsy, it is not mathematics.
Edsger Dijkstra

I wish I could blame it on the choreography, but it's not a musical. I just had a clumsy moment.
Delta Burke

There have been times when I reread - or at least leafed through - something because I'd sent a copy to a friend, and what usually happened was that I noticed dozens and dozens of clumsy phrases I wished I could rewrite.
Peter Straub

If I loved all the world as I do you, I shouldn't write books to it: I should only write letters to it, and that would be only a clumsy stage on the way to entire telepathy.
Laurence Housman

History seems to be so clumsy.
Robert Johnson

One of the hardest aspects of this protracted public persona is not knowing others as well as they feel they know me. It's a rather clumsy feeling actually; to not know someone who acts as though you're old friends.
Christopher Knight

In order to have an enemy, one must be somebody. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force. A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.
Sophie Swetchine

Your physicality is this great thing, but it is also the thing that makes you clumsy and limits you in the world, so to speak.
Amy Ray

I think space will be conquered through the mind rather than the clumsy medium of space travel.
Patrick Troughton

If my life was a song the title would probably be 'Clumsy', 'cause I'm clumsy.
Pia Toscano

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Clumsy Translations

clumsy in French is malhabile
clumsy in Hungarian is balkezes
clumsy in Spanish is desgraciado
clumsy in Swedish is tafatt, drumlig, oskicklig, klumpig

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