adv. [f. CLUMSY + -LY2.] In a clumsy manner.

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1691.  Ray, Creation, I. (1692), 133. Upon the Ground he [the Chamelæon] walks very clumsily and ridiculously.

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1772–84.  Cook, Voy., IV. III. vi. (R.). Canoes … composed of several pieces of wood clumsily sewed together with bandages.

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1868.  Freeman, Norm. Conq. (1877), II. ix. 398. The light-armed and nimble Welsh were doubtless well able to overtake the clumsily mounted English.

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1879.  A. Taylor, Guienne, 55. The span-new and often clumsily conceived nineteenth-century miracle.

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