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Clumsily

Clumsily \Clum"si*ly\, adv. In a clumsy manner; awkwardly; as, to walk clumsily.

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clumsily

adv. done without care or finesse, often hurriedly or awkwardly.

WordNet
clumsily

adv. in a clumsy manner; "he snatched the bills clumsily"

Usage examples of "clumsily".

Instead of offering fight, he turned and scurried after the Salamanders, who had formed a two-man file, still dashing clumsily, handicapped in their asbestos suits.

These they took to Botts, who made a pile of stones and stacked the turf clumsily on wooden frames cut by Harry.

Now the pup repeated this sequence of actions, somewhat more clumsily and more gracelessly than had Bozo, but without accident.

The Chickadee cried out once more and leaped, more clumsily than usual, into the air, leaving its victim behind.

With impossible strength the man wrenched at the arm of coagulated stone and dislocated it, so the golem moved clumsily.

Silky hung at the net beside her, moving clumsily, stunned by his wound or by the sonics that had dazzled the mers.

Crippled Dorry knew where spacesuits were kept, and somewhat clumsily began the process of getting out a pair of them, one child-sized, and bringing them into the hallway.

The Geet clumsily plucked the second ear of corn and lumbered away into the night with it.

Ahead of us, clumsily executed in marble by a local craftsman, a robed and bearded statue of God the Elder, the greatest guildsman of them all, gazed down at us.

He swayed clumsily in rough time to the music and made a little gurgly sound that might have been the beginnings of a laugh.

They clumsily wrenched the raft back and forth, their strapped logs hindering them at every step, frantically trying to force it out of the jam.

He leaned up, pressing clumsily against Iral, giving him an awkward, but heartfelt first kiss.

Hugo nimbly and Humphrey clumsily and slowly, as became his years and experience, as William Lorimer would have said if he had seen him.

It was only after repeated instruction from Lur that he began to frame his messages in his mind, clumsily and disconnectedly.

Thea could answer Lur came Waving clumsily out of the sky, her small breasts shaking.