English
Etymology
From clumsy + -ly.
Adverb
clumsily (comparative more clumsily, superlative most clumsily)
- In a clumsy manner or way; without care or finesse, often hurriedly or awkwardly.
1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 514:But, bowing with sketchily joined hands, they smiled their way clumsily out, down to the darkness.
Synonyms
Translations
done without care or finesse, often hurriedly or awkwardly
- Catalan: graponerament (ca)
- Finnish: kömpelösti (fi), tökerösti (fi)
- French: maladroitement (fr)
- Greek: άγαρμπα (el) (ágarmpa)
- Hungarian: esetlenül (hu)
- Italian: grossolanamente (it), alla meno peggio, alla cieca, a tentoni, disordinatamente (it), a casaccio, al buio (it)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: klossete
- Polish: niezdarnie (pl), niezgrabnie (pl)
- Portuguese: desajeitadamente (pt), atrapalhadamente (pt)
- Russian: неуклю́же (ru) (neukljúže)
- Spanish: torpemente, toscamente (es)
- Swedish: klumpigt (sv)
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