Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Clumsy in form or manner; awkward.
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- adjective informal
Ungainly ;awkward ;inelegant ;cumbersome .
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- adjective lacking grace in movement or posture
- adjective making a clunking sound
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Examples
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The mythos upon which this movie hangs is admittedly a tad clunky from a Western standpoint - though it makes for a perfectly serviceable Eastern legend.
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You HATE the book, or the first sentence has glaring grammatical errors, or the whole point of the book is obtuse and lost in clunky prose.
UPDATES - and Clowns With Big Signs...and stuff. deep_bluze 2004
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Cheryl says it is a little bit "clunky" -- access is not so fast, however, it is a growing free tool for very young children.
Archive 2008-06-01 2008
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Cheryl says it is a little bit "clunky" -- access is not so fast, however, it is a growing free tool for very young children.
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The hardware design felt "clunky" -- especially the flimsy-feeling sliding of the touchscreen, needed to reveal the keyboard underneath.
LinuxInsider 2008
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“One Last Dance” is a wimpy ballad that owes its melody to Natalie Cole’s “Miss You Like Crazy”, but Alyssa’s voice has a certain clunky appeal.
Gruesome Twosome: Looks 10, Musical Ability 3 Edition : Scrubbles.net 2006
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“One Last Dance” is a wimpy ballad that owes its melody to Natalie Cole’s “Miss You Like Crazy”, but Alyssa’s voice has a certain clunky appeal.
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I recall the clunky, ugly pages I wrought through those lessons — it gave me a feeling of power not dissimilar to my 1979 experiments with a ...
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I recall the clunky, ugly pages I wrought through those lessons — it gave me a feeling of power not dissimilar to my 1979 experiments with a TI-99 running BASIC, when I commanded the ones and zeroes to:
How I stopped worrying and learned to build a Web site « The Retort 2009
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The thing about the Kindle is that it is quite clunky, which is perhaps an odd thing to say about a product so new on the market.
quotato commented on the word clunky
awkwardly heavy or clumsy: clunky software applications; clunky client-server.
September 29, 2007