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Want of dexterity or readiness, especially in the use of the hands; clumsiness; awkwardness. Harvey.

Unfitly; unsuitably; awkwardly. None of them are made foolishly or ineptly. Dr. H. More.

Unskilled; unready; awkward; incompetent; unqualified; -- said of person. [Obs.] See Unable.

To wriggle or frisk about; to move awkwardly; to shake up and down.

Clumsy; awkward; unlucky; insincere; sinister; malicious; as, a left-handed compliment. The commendations of this people are not always left-handed and detractive. Landor.

The state or quality of being left-handed; awkwardness. An awkward address, ungraceful attitudes and actions, and a certain left-handiness (if I may use the expression) proclaim low education. Chesterfield.

Loobylike; awkward. Fuller.

An awkward, clumsy fellow; a lubber. Swift.

A clownish, awkward fellow; a bumpkin. Sir P. Sidney.

Clownish; rude; awkward. "Loutish clown." Sir P. Sidney. -- Lout"ish*ly, adv. -- Lout"*ish*ness, n.

A heavy, clumsy, or awkward fellow; a sturdy drone; a clown. Lingering lubbers lose many a penny. Tusser. Land lubber, a name given in contempt by sailors to a person who lives on land. -- Lubber grasshopper (Zoöl.), a large, stout, clumsy grasshopper; esp., Brachystola magna, from the Rocky Mountain plains, and Romal…

Clumsily; awkwardly. Dryden.

A fat, ungainly, stupid person; an awkward bungler. [Law.]

Bad address; an awkward, tactless, or offensive way of accosting one or talking with one. W. D. Howells.

Of a quality opposed to adroitness; clumsy; awkward; unskillful. -- Mal"a*droit`ly, adv. -- Mal`a*droit"ness, n.

A girl; esp., a great, awkward girl; a wench. [Prov. Eng.]

To handle awkwardly; to fumble; to fail to hold, as a ball, in catching it.

Stupid; awkward. [Colloq.]

ng, a muscle or muscles; as, muscular fiber. Great muscular strength, accompanied by much awkwardness. Macaulay.

s reproach for a conceited and impertinent person. I found my place taken by an ill-bred, awkward puppy with a money bag under each arm. Addison.