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[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
clumsy \clum"sy\, a. compar. clumsier; superl. clumsiest.
   oe. clumsed benumbed, fr. clumsen to be benumbed; cf. icel.
   klumsa lockjaw, dial. sw. klummsen benumbed with cold. cf.
   1st clam, and 1st clamp.
   1. stiff or benumbed, as with cold. obs.
      1913 webster

   2. without skill or grace; wanting dexterity, nimbleness, or
      readiness; stiff; awkward, as if benumbed; unwieldy;
      unhandy; hence; ill-made, misshapen, or inappropriate; as,
      a clumsy person; a clumsy workman; clumsy fingers; a
      clumsy gesture; a clumsy excuse.
      1913 webster

            but thou in clumsy verse, unlicked, unpointed,
            hast shamefully defied the lord's anointed.
                                                  --dryden.

   syn: see awkward.
        1913 webster
see also:
clumsier clumsiest clam clamp awkward 
[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
clumsy
     adj 1: lacking grace in movement or posture; "a gawky lad with long
            ungainly legs"; "clumsy fingers"; "what an ungainly
            creature a giraffe is"; "heaved his unwieldy figure
            out of his chair" syn: gawky, clunky, ungainly,
             unwieldy
     2: not elegant or graceful in expression; "an awkward prose
        style"; "a clumsy apology"; "his cumbersome writing
        style"; "if the rumor is true, can anything be more inept
        than to repeat it now?" syn: awkward, cumbersome, inapt,
         inept, ill-chosen
     3: difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape;
        "an awkward bundle to carry"; "a load of bunglesome
        paraphernalia"; "clumsy wooden shoes"; "the cello, a
        rather ungainly instrument for a girl" syn: awkward, bunglesome,
         ungainly
     4: showing lack of skill or aptitude; "a bungling workman";
        "did a clumsy job"; "his fumbling attempt to put up a
        shelf" syn: bungling, fumbling, incompetent
     also: clumsiest, clumsier
see also:
gawky clunky ungainly unwieldy awkward cumbersome 
inapt inept ill-chosen bunglesome bungling 
fumbling incompetent clumsiest clumsier 
[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
105 moby thesaurus words for "clumsy":
   doric, all thumbs, awkward, barbaric, barbarous, blunderheaded,
   blundering, boorish, botched, bovine, bulky, bumbling, bungling,
   butterfingered, cacophonous, careless, cloddish, clownish,
   clumsy-fisted, coarse, contrary, crosswise, crude, cumbersome,
   cumbrous, deficient, discommodious, doggerel, dysphemistic,
   elephantine, fingers all thumbs, fumbling, gauche, gawkish, gawky,
   graceless, gross, half-assed, ham-fisted, ham-handed, haphazard,
   harsh, heavy-handed, hit-and-miss, hit-or-miss, hulking, hulky,
   impractical, improper, impure, in bad taste, incommodious,
   inconcinnate, inconcinnous, inconvenient, incorrect, indecorous,
   inelegant, inept, infelicitous, left-hand, left-handed, loutish,
   low, lubberly, lumbering, lumpish, lumpy, maladroit, massive,
   massy, messy, oafish, outlandish, perverse, ponderous, promiscuous,
   rude, slipshod, slipshoddy, sloppy, slovenly, sluttish, splay,
   stiff, tasteless, troublesome, uncourtly, uncouth, undignified,
   uneuphonious, unfelicitous, ungainly, ungraced, ungraceful,
   unhandy, unhappy, unmanageable, unpolished, unrefined, unseemly,
   untidy, unwieldy, vulgar, wooden





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One of God's Clumsy Innocents
...He is "one of God's clumsy innocents who found his way among the ... He described McGonagall as "one of God's clumsy innocents, who found ... ..
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