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clumsily

clumsily adverb: in a clumsy manner or way; without care or finesse, often hurriedly or awkwardly.

Adverb

clumsily (comparative more clumsily, superlative most clumsily)

  1. In a clumsy manner or way; without care or finesse, often hurriedly or awkwardly.
    • But, bowing with sketchily joined hands, they smiled their way clumsily out, down to the darkness.1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 514
    Synonyms:
    carelessly, sloppily

clumsily meaning in Malayalam and Kannada

clumsily in Malayalam

വിരൂപമായി, വിലക്ഷണമായി, വികൃതമായി, പ്രാകൃതമായി

clumsily in Kannada

ಅಡ್ಡಾದಿಡ್ಡಿ

Examples of clumsily in a sentence

  • He clumsily made a pass at the prom queen, and she responded with a scowl.
  • He stumbles on the steps and falls, clumsily enough to face-plant on a riser.
  • She was standing reading a yard-long fax, which she clumsily folded and put down.

All 22 example sentences with clumsily

Synonyms of clumsily

Forms of clumsily

comparativemore clumsily
superlativemost clumsily

Origin of clumsily

From clumsy + -ly.

Questions about clumsily

What does clumsily mean?
Clumsily means in a clumsy manner or way; without care or finesse, often hurriedly or awkwardly.
What is clumsily in Malayalam?
Clumsily in Malayalam is വിരൂപമായി, വിലക്ഷണമായി, വികൃതമായി. See Clumsily meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is clumsily?
Clumsily is an adverb.

Words near clumsily in the dictionary

  1. clumsed
  2. clumses
  3. clumsier
  4. clumsies
  5. clumsiest
  6. clumsily
  7. clumsiness
  8. clumsinesses
  9. clumsing
  10. clumsy
  11. Clun

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Adapted from Wiktionary: clumsily (page history and authors); clumsily (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); clumsily (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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