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Unwieldiness

Unwieldy \Un*wield"y\, a. Not easily wielded or carried; unmanageable; bulky; ponderous. ``A fat, unwieldy body of fifty-eight years old.''
--Clarendon. [1913 Webster] -- Un*wield"i*ly, adv. -- Un*wield"i*ness, n.

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unwieldiness

n. The characteristic of being unwieldy.

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unwieldiness

n. trouble in carrying or managing caused by bulk or shape; "the movers cursed the unwieldiness of the big piano" [syn: awkwardness, cumbersomeness]

Usage examples of "unwieldiness".

Daily her absurd unwieldiness was exhibited to crowds screaming with laughter.

Yet the narrow-beamed Fuegian craft she was in would hold only four more occupants, and that with a certain risk and unwieldiness.

In the form in which I repeated it to myself it had not the right number of feet, but as I made no attempt to count them, between its unwieldiness and a classical line of poetry it seemed as though no common measure could exist.