Sophie Hunger

I lied a lot when I was a kid. Somehow, I still do this today, but maybe in another way - not quite as ridiculously clumsily as I used to. But still, I think making music has a lot to do with it. One invents something that one can't possibly be. With songs, one invents a world that wouldn't exist otherwise.

Swiss Musician

Kate Forsyth

As an adult, I have often been deep in serious conversation with someone I've highly respected and seen them roll an eye as my mouth has mangled yet another magnificently conceived, clumsily articulated sentence. In my mind, the words are mellifluous as honey. In my mouth, they are shards of glass.

Australian Author

Joseph Stiglitz

The diminishing economic role of the United States in the global economy means that global political power will also become more dispersed. The world will become multipolar. By clumsily re-asserting a wish for U.S. dominance, Donald Trump is accelerating the opposite.

American Economist

Marya Hornbacher

I am often drawn to what appear at first to be 'dark' or 'difficult' subjects, but which, upon further examination, are always and only reflections of the ways human beings attempt, however clumsily, badly, or well, to connect with others.

American Author

Josh Gondelman

When you're hot, you stride confidently down the street, extending your form to hail a taxi to take you from place to place. My body is designed for squeezing into packed subway cars and apologizing to those whose feet I clumsily step on.

Stephanie Beacham

One of the reasons I wanted to teach deaf children was because it made me very sad that they spoke so clumsily and that they moved with less grace that I knew was possible of deaf people.

English Actress

Jenna Wortham

People in tech love to see their work as embodying the 'hacker ethos': a desire to break systems down in order to change them. But this pride can often be conveyed rather clumsily.

American Journalist

Use 'clumsily' to describe actions that involve movement and are done with lack of control or finesse.

Physical Actions

'Clumsily' often implies a negative judgment about someone’s abilities in a specific situation.

Negative Tone

Use 'clumsily' to create a mental picture of someone being awkward or uncoordinated.

Visual Imagery

'Clumsily' shows that someone struggles to express their thoughts clearly or persuasively.

Unclear Communication

Use 'clumsily' to describe someone making a well-intentioned but awkward apology.

Apologies

Describe social interactions that are handled without tact or sensitivity as 'clumsily'.

Social Situations

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 And he wanted to get away from everybody thinking all the time about genes, and so he said, "Is there another replicator out there on the planet?" Ah, yes, there is. Look around you -- here will do, in this room. All around us, still clumsily drifting about

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