Clumsy quality.
1649. Blithe, Eng. Improv. Impr. (1652), 201. The Turn-wrest plough … surpasseth for weight, and clumsiness.
1821. Arnold, in Stanley, Life, I. ii. (1868), 57. All clumsiness in the sentences, and want of connexion between the parts, I will do my best to amend.
1863. Kinglake, Crimea, II. xvi. 257. From their clumsiness in manœuvring.
