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Definition

difficult to move or manage

in various senses, including:

"an unwieldy package" — difficult to handle because of size, weight, or shape
"an unwieldy person" — lacking grace in movement due to something like weight or injury
"an unwieldy organization or system" — slow, inefficient, or ineffective due to size or poor organization

I bumped into her while carrying the unwieldy package.

In its current form, the device is too big and unwieldy for mass sales.

unwieldy = difficult to move or manage

The country has many unwieldy rules and regulations that must be navigated before you can start a business.
She heaved her unwieldy figure out of her chair.
The web address is descriptive, but it's length makes it too unwieldy to write or type.
'The unwieldy old man, lowering his big forehead like an ox under a yoke, made an effort to rise, clutching at the flintlock pistols on his knees.
Joseph Conrad -- Lord Jim
Max found that many of the weapons were storied but ancient and unwieldy.
Henry H. Neff -- The Second Siege
Under his palms, the metal was cold, the heavy can unwieldy, a shifting steely glimmer under his eves.
Henry Roth -- Call It Sleep
Kate stumbled because of the unwieldy ladder.
Trenton Lee Stewart -- The Mysterious Benedict Society
The big Krag, long as a Kentucky squirrel rifle and as unwieldy, would be in reserve.
Pat Frank -- Alas, Babylon
I will do mine best to translate them, but the results may be rough and unwieldy.
Christopher Paolini -- Eldest
"Not that what it was called before wasn't a name, but it's rather unwieldy to keep calling it 'The Island at the Edge of the World,' don't you think?"
James A. Owen -- Here, There be Dragons
Jeb let the unwieldy box fall onto the mattress.
Stephenie Meyer -- The Host
It was a large box camera with an accordion apparatus for the lens, unwieldy and as heavy as a stone around his neck, and he disliked it thoroughly.
David Guterson -- Snow Falling on Cedars
Elizabeth guided her this way and that; guided her in her abstraction as if she had been a great child, an unwieldy battleship.
Virginia Woolf -- Mrs. Dalloway
Perhaps the unbecoming force of my outburst brought home to him the gravity of his task, filled him with intimations of an unwieldy fate.
Don DeLillo -- White Noise
The latter, fortunately, was loose, so that it produced no great influence on the crab like movements of the unwieldy craft.
James Fenimore Cooper -- The Deerslayer
The lower portion of the other is hidden from view by the head of the unwieldy bedstead which is thrust close up against it.
Edgar Allan Poe -- The Murders in the Rue Morgue
Skeptical Sherpas promptly dubbed the unwieldy canisters "English Air.
Jon Krakauer -- Into Thin Air
The overloaded and unwieldy sled forged ahead, Buck and his mates struggling frantically under the rain of blows.
Jack London -- The Call of the Wild

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