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Cumbersomely

cumbersome \cum"ber*some\ (k?m"b?r-s?m), a.

  1. Burdensome or hindering, as a weight or drag; embarrassing; vexatious; cumbrous.

    To perform a cumbersome obedience.
    --Sir. P. Sidney.

  2. Not easily managed; as, a cumbersome contrivance or machine.

    He holds them in utter contempt, as lumbering, cumbersome, circuitous.
    --I. Taylor. -- Cum"ber*some*ly, adv. -- Cum"ber*some*ness,n.

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cumbersomely

adv. In a cumbersome way.

Usage examples of "cumbersomely".

She couldn't have been more cumbersomely dressed if she'd been cleaning up nuclear waste in a post-meltdown reactor.

Penrod called, and he came running to the stable, seized upon a large wooden box, which the carpenters had fitted with a lid and leather hinges, and returned with it cumbersomely to the cistern.

For, as the Earl rose in power and influence, and as it so became well worth while for the lower nobility and gentry to enter their sons in his family, the body of squires became almost cumbersomely large.

Once we were away from the shelter of the headland we made heavy weather in the running swell, the bow of the launch crashing cumbersomely into the walls of the waves, taking on water with every lurching recovery.

He passed a couple of diesel trucks rumbling slowly and cumbersomely along.

Snowden was lying on his back on the floor with his legs stretched out, still burdened cumbersomely by his flak suit, his flak helmet, his parachute harness and his Mae West.