Clumsily
['klʌmzili]
Definition
(adv.) In a clumsy manner; awkwardly; as, to walk clumsily.
Checker: Quincy
Examples
- I have tried to help her, but I daresay I did it clumsily, and scared her from it. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Yet, clumsily or smoothly, the world, it seems, progresses and will progress. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I trust I shall not eat long at your expense, sir, was my very clumsily- contrived, unpolished answer. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Birkin pushed himself off, and veered clumsily in the pond. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Very clumsily too, I fear. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
Checker: Quincy