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Pronounce Clumsy as K L UW M S Y.

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    Clumsy phonetic transcription:

    When you start learning English, it's important to become familiar with the typical sounds of the language. The best way to do this is by studying phonetics. Below is the UK transcription for the word 'clumsy'. Get the right phonetic representation for any word using our free Phonetic Transcription Tool.

    • Traditional IPA representation of clumsy: /klumsj/
    • Modern IPA representation of clumsy: /clʊmsʌ/

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    List of meaning for clumsy

    awkward in movement or handling, prone to accidents or mistakes

    gawky, clumsy, clunky, ungainly, unwieldy(adj)

    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"

    awkward, clumsy, cumbersome, inapt, inept, ill-chosen(adj)

    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?"

    awkward, bunglesome, clumsy, ungainly(adj)

    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"

    bungling, clumsy, fumbling, incompetent(adj)

    showing lack of skill or aptitude

    "a bungling workman"; "did a clumsy job"; "his fumbling attempt to put up a shelf"

    lacking or showing a lack of nimbleness in using one's hands

    diamond cutting is no job for a clumsy person

    having or showing an inability to move in a graceful manner a clumsy bow

    clumsy on the dance floor

    lacking social grace and assurance

    felt clumsy in the unfamiliar uniform

    showing or marked by a lack of skill and tact (as in dealing with a situation)

    a clumsy joke

    difficult to use or operate especially because of size, weight, or design

    a clumsy contraption, but it got the job done

    hastily or roughly constructed

    a clumsy mock-up of the real thing

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    clumsy in sentence

    1. If left to her own devices, my clumsy sister can muddle a clean house within seconds.

    2. Employees watched as the clumsy navigator of the forklift swung the machine around causing the boxes to topple over.

    3. I was always extremely clumsy when it came to sports, being unable to hold onto the ball or catch it when thrown to me.

    4. Jack tripped over Jill, and both of the clumsy children came tumbling down the hill.

    5. Her only obtainable goal was to make straight A’s since she was too short for the basketball team and too clumsy for cheerleading.

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    Quotes and sayings containing the term clumsy

    A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man.

    – E. M. Forster

    It's heavy-handed, i think it's clumsy diplomacy.

    – Peter Goldring

    The worst thing is that this is, at the same time, (a tool of) total control, a clumsy attempt to protect themselves from external threats, and a great opportunity for cyber criminals.

    – Shavkat Sabirov

    The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.

    – H. G. Wells, 1903

    A subtle-witted man is like an arrow, which, rending little surface, enters deeply, but they whose minds are dull resemble stones dashing with clumsy force, but never piercing.

    – Magha

    We think that that has not happened. They’ve been much too fast to pick up kids on unfounded allegations based on clumsy things like a basketball jersey that they might be wearing or something they posted on the internet which falls far short of the sort of evidence you want to see before somebody labels you a gang member.

    – Christopher Dunn

    Was it handled in maybe a clumsy way? Okay, so it was, but look, get beyond that. See, that's our problem, Gloria, we spend too much time either trying to be politically correct, play to the cameras, play to our base.

    – John Kasich

    I think it was one of the major contributors to the outcome, propaganda works. Advertising works. It’s a form of propaganda. So the Russians may have started out a little heavy-handed and clumsy about it, but they were clearly getting guided as to where to target a lot of their fraudulent claims and phony news.

    – Hillary Clinton

    It was a crass and clumsy gesture from an increasingly isolated tin pot despot, a morally deranged authoritarian who was at that very moment clinging desperately onto political power in the face of international sanctions and a rising chorus of international condemnation, after years of negotiation and appeasement, the world has lost its patience now with Mr Putin's judo politics and his cringing hard-man photo opportunities.

    – Ben Emmerson

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