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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She found the outdated software cumbersome compared to newer, more efficient tools.cumbersome = hard to manage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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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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But I dare say you'd find it a little bit cumbersome. (source)cumbersome = difficult to handle
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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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I felt like a huge grape, swollen to bursting with sugar and purple juice; I felt ugly and cumbersome.† (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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They used cumbersome magnetic core memory and paper input tape, and their longest uptime did not exceed fifteen hours.† (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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It was only a few kilometers, but their suitcases were cumbersome and heavy.† (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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Already short of breath and struggling with the cumbersome volume, Langdon descended the ladder.† (source)
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