Sample Sentences forcumbersome (editor-reviewed)
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Can you help me move this box? It's not heavy, but it is cumbersome.cumbersome = difficult to handle
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She found the outdated software cumbersome compared to newer, more efficient tools.cumbersome = hard to manage
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Her essay had good ideas, but the cumbersome writing style made it hard to follow.cumbersome = awkward
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She struggled to lift the cumbersome box up the stairs.cumbersome = difficult to handle
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But I dare say you'd find it a little bit cumbersome. (source)
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It was big and cumbersome where the minnie ball had chewed it in passing. (source)cumbersome = difficult to handle and not graceful
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He picked up the slimy wet, cumbersome float and put it under his arm. (source)cumbersome = difficult to handle
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I had gotten used to the fifty pounds of gear cumbersomely strapped to my back, torso, and legs.† (source)
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I was sure to be followed, because of the slow cumbersomeness of the car approaching the Loop.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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Deliberations were often slow and cumbersome, so these gatherings were not particularly thrilling.† (source)
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She looked down at her damp, dirty birthday dress: a flouncy thing, tight at the waist and poofing out below her knees in a cumbersomely wide circle, its collar high and floppy and ruffled.† (source)
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I was wearing my cumbersome op gear over a winter jacket as I tried to move like a cat.† (source)
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At the turnpike scene, where Bess and Turpin are hotly pursued at midnight by the officers, and the half-awake gatekeeper in his tasselled nightcap denies that any horseman has passed, Coggan uttered a broad-chested "Well done!" which could be heard all over the fair above the bleating, and Poorgrass smiled delightedly with a nice sense of dramatic contrast between our hero, who coolly leaps the gate, and halting justice in the form of his enemies, who must needs pull up cumbersomely and wait to be let through.† (source)
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The buzzards feeding in the median heaved their cumbersome bodies into the air.† (source)
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He felt like some kind of giant reptile, moving cumbersomely about, dragging his tunnel like a thick tail behind him.† (source)
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Mae soon found her second glass of wine cumbersome, so she finished it.† (source)
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