clumsy

clumsy
adj
1. awkward, ungraceful, ungainly; oafish, doltish, clodish, lumbering, heavy-footed, lubberly, bearish, bovine, lumpish, hulking; stiff, wooden, stodgy, stolid, heavy, unwieldly, ponderous.
2. unhandy, inept, bungling, bumbling, clownish, blundering; unskillful, left-handed, maladroit, bungle-some, ambisinister, like a bull in a china shop, Inf. all thumbs, Inf. butterfingered, Inf. klutzy.
3. rough, uncouth, gauche, unpolished, boorish; inelegant, graceless, coarse, gross, ill-conceived, crude, crass, thoughtless, insensitive, inconsiderate, tactless, untoward, inappropriate, unfitting.

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