Clumsiness
['klʌmzɪnɪs]
Definition
(n.) The quality of being clumsy.
Checker: Sigmund
Examples
- And then the real clumsiness of his mind is its lack of self-criticism. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- But it looked defeated now, his body, it clambered and fell with slow clumsiness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The first meetings went off with a certain humiliating clumsiness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Tut, it is only a scratch through my own clumsiness, he answered, nodding his good-mornings to us. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- His quiet insistence made Archer feel the clumsiness of his own bluster. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- The description in the Iliad of the gods shaking their sides at the clumsiness of Hephaestus will not be admitted by us. Plato. The Republic.
- I thought this curious--but I attributed it mainly to some clumsiness on the Superintendent's part which might have offended the young lady. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
Typed by Ann