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241 examples of Clumsy in a sentence

Now you can probably make it, but it's going to be a pretty clumsy apparatus, I think.
Sometimes, when Sheila would lay down in the milk, it would wash all the paint off of her arms, and it might seem a little bit clumsy, but our solution would be, okay, hide your arms.
And I thought to myself, "That sounds clumsy.
We manage to do this with little effort, inferring stable character traits from a single behavior, like a harsh word or a clumsy step.
And unlike our clumsy way of breathing in and out through the same passage, dogs exhale through slits at the side of their nose, creating swirls of air that help draw in new odor molecules and allow odor concentration to build up over mulitple sniffs.
It looks like a cup that could be used by you, me, any clumsy person, and that makes it much more comforting for them to use, to blend in.
This sequence encapsulates much of what is loved about Don Quixote, the epic, illogical, and soulful tale of Alonso Quijano, who becomes the clumsy but valiant Don Quixote of la Mancha, known as the Knight of the Sorrowful Countenance.
Like the irreverent Elizabeth Bennet of "Pride and Prejudice," whose devotion to her sisters’ love lives blinds her to a clumsy suitor.
You know, this is just clumsy little baby steps.
Terrific production and a good comedic performance by George Clooney can't save curiously detached, occasionally clumsy quasi-comedy from Joel and Ethan Coen.
Robert Aldrich's brutal, quasi-black comedy "The Grissom Gang", a reworking of the 1948 British film "No Orchids For Miss Blandish", has 1920s heiress Kim Darby kidnapped by a pack of clumsy thieves; soon, that gang is dispatched and poor Kim is then transferred into the clutches of another crooked bunch--third-rate gangster brothers with sweaty, pasty faces and a mother who looks like Buddy Ebsen in drag.
Maybe he'll learn some lessons and his next effort will be less clumsy.
This film is so copy-cat, cliché-ridden, clumsy, and laboured, I find it astounding that anyone could not feel cheated by the experience of sitting through it.
No more ominous castles with eerie cobwebs and dark vaults, but confused doctors and clumsy assistants that provoke laughs instead of frights.
The stunt work was clumsy - the story stale and hokey.
The flash-backs were clumsy.
This movie is a clumsy mishmash of various ghost-story and suspense-thriller conventions, none of them fully realized and all of them rather irritating.
Next it tries to be erotic but comes across as clumsy as a virgin's first attempt.
The clumsy cops chased by a dog, the old lady with a tweety bird or Christina Ricci's sarcastic oneliners?
Jones' teenage daughter has a sour look on her face throughout (which doesn't prevent one of the local yahoos from leering at her), and of course clumsy pop Dean Jones is a regular stumblebum on the slopes, leading to a lot of pratfalls in the slush.
It fails in delivering the "message" it tries to give, fails in its storytelling, clumsy historical settings and above all in its rhythm.
Badly shot, badly edited, clumsy dialogue, flat characters, unsuccessful adaption of a novel.
The CG battles are clumsy as well, further enhancing the fact that CG and line animation do not mix well.
The "killer scarecrows" are clumsy oafs that are about as scary as the one in the Wizard of Oz, but not quite as smart.
A film about an interesting and sensitive period of history, filmed in beautiful surroundings, managed to present an appallingly trivial and clichéd production, grossly clumsy script, poor continuity, intrusive slushy music, sugary casting, and pallid acting.
Here another clumsy attempt sputters confuses and alienates would be viewers with admirable effectiveness while successfully antagonizing those of us who have actually read the story.
The shoot out scenes are clumsy and incredible.
"Ordinary Decent Criminal" has a clumsy screenplay, naive direction, journeyman execution, thin story, poor casting, mediocre acting, and eventually becomes lost in itself and sinks into a mire of hopeless mediocrity.
Clumsy action, little violence, and the PG rating is nowhere near questionable.
Clumsy overdubs explaining the history, monochrome acting, boring sets, total lack of any humanity, verve or style.
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