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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Difficult to carry or manage because of size, shape, weight, or complexity: an unwieldy parcel; an unwieldy bureaucracy.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Movable or moving with difficulty; unmanageable from size, shape, or weight; lacking pliability: as, an unwieldy hulk; an unwieldy rock.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. obsolete lacking strength; weak
  2. adj. obsolete ungraceful in movement
  3. adj. difficult to carry, handle, manage or operate because of its size, weight, shape or complexity
  4. adj. badly managed or operated

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Not easily wielded or carried; unmanageable; bulky; ponderous.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. difficult to work or manipulate
  2. adj. difficult to use or handle or manage because of size or weight or shape
  3. adj. lacking grace in movement or posture

Etymologies

  1. From Middle English unweldi, equivalent to un- +‎ wieldy. Cognate with Middle Low German unweldich ("unwieldy"). (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “(Compare that with the approach of the Federal Communications Commission, which allows only limited searching of filings and comments; or that of the Department of Justice, which puts out data on foreign lobbying in unwieldy PDF format and binders.)”

    iGov

  • “I saw one day a herd of a dozen bullocks and cows running about and frisking in unwieldy sport, like huge rats, even like kittens.”

    Walking

  • “The title is unwieldy, but the book—set in present-day Guyana—is a deft synthesis of travelogue and Bildungsroman, by turns antic and introspective.”

    The Wall Street Journal: Cheeshahteaumauk, Class of '65 (1665)

  • “Fans of the original surely recall the unwieldy and annoying mini-game that was more enjoyable if you had auto-hack tools or just bought them out with Ryanbucks.”

    Gaming Target

  • “Then came the idea of the ‘post-bureaucratic age’ — in itself the kind of unwieldy phrase you might expect a bureaucrat to use.”

    John Rentoul today puts Trevor Kavanagh and myself in the...

  • “Eugenie Allen says Leslie "doesn't do this loaded issue justice, '' because she" uses a battering ram '' to make her points, and so The Feminine Mistake is "unwieldy" and "polarizing.”

    Jeremy Gerard: You Say Mystique, I Say Mistake

  • “There is something thoroughly modernist about Burtynsky's work, the grand scale, the glorious detail, a kind of unwieldy whole.”

    Archive 2006-09-01

  • “The piece arrived in early December as an "unwieldy" first draft, Mr. Marzorati said: roughly 13,000 words.”

    Off The Record

  • “He saw the 'unwieldy' Privileges Committee and its party divisions as part of the problem, not the answer.”

    Betty Bothroyd The Autobiography

  • “The back story is unwieldy, that is true – and although I am not a huge fan of flashbacks, they are the best way I’ve found to deal with her history.”

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