clumsy
笨手笨脚,笨手笨脚的,笨拙的,笨拙
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clum·si·er, clum·si·est.
- : awkward in movement or action; without skill or grace: He is very clumsy and is always breaking things.
- : awkwardly done or made; unwieldy; ill-contrived: He made a clumsy, embarrassed apology.
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Equipped with foreign DNA, the little guys nevertheless seemed totally normal, nosing around the lab and running everywhere without obvious clumsy stumbles.
The colonizers spun this through their clumsy tongues and came up with “carel” as a sweeping term for all the food the Indigenous people ate.
Each of Liverpool’s first two goals received a Leeds reply within 10 minutes, but a clumsy lunge by Rodrigo Moreno gave Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah the opportunity to convert the winning penalty shot.
Reynolds and Mani are very good at playing hapless and clumsy with endearing rapport, and their general helplessness comes off not as a stale joke but as a concerning hint of things to come.
Here’s a practical guide to finding the glass out there for you, whether you’re frugal, clumsy, or just running out of kitchen space.
He must be pretending to be something, striking some kind of clumsy tribal note.
But Silva, hapless Silva, got his merely for tangling with the Colombian goalkeeper in a clumsy melee of limbs.
Season one of OITNB chronicled her clumsy, fumbling attempts to get her legs under her so she could run for safety.
Ignore the clumsy comparisons of the Syria War and the Balkans War.
Rather, after weeks of clumsy diplomacy, they consciously led their nations into battle.
Scientists tell us that from the point of view of optics the human eye is a instrument poorly contrived for its work.