klutz

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He proves that he can play characters darker and more complicated than his usual lovable klutz, and she is a good sport about looking disturbingly vulgar and trashy.

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  • I do not identify as a klutz, really, but I am kinda goofy and find myself performing slightly dumb and/or humiliating maneuvers fairly often.
  • She stretched her lips out—maybe she thought it would look like a smile—and told me it was all nothing, she was such a klutz, accidents happen I asked her how the accident happened, the one that broke her pinkie finger. —  Asimov's Science Fiction, Jan. 2002
  • I want to be tall and have crisp blonde hair that stays where I put it, and walk on high heels and not look like a klutz. —  Hard News
  • You must think I ;m a klutz, and I don ;t mean just in the courtroom I think you ;re an angel The skin between her breasts burned when she noticed him looking there God, Kristine. —  In His Own Defense
  • Just be a klutz, she told herself; Lord knows you've had plenty of practice. —  Manhattan Is My Beat
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Etymologies (1)

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  1. Yiddish klots, from Middle High German kloz, block, lump, from Old High German.
 

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