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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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17 words match “CLUMSILY”

CLUMSILY adv.
In a clumsy manner; awkwardly; as, to walk clumsily.
BODGE v.
To botch; to mend clumsily; to patch. [Obs. or Dial.]
BUNGLE v.
To make or mend clumsily; to manage awkwardly; to botch; -- sometimes with up. I always had an idea that it would be bungled. Byron.
BUNGLINGLY adv.
Clumsily; awkwardly.
CLAMP v.
To tread heavily or clumsily; to clump. The policeman with clamping feet. Thackeray.
CLOUT v.
To join or patch clumsily. If fond Bavius vent his clouted song. P. Fletcher
CLUMP v.
To tread clumsily; to clamp. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.
COBBLE v.
To make clumsily. "Cobbled rhymes." Dryden.
FLOP v.
To fall, sink, or throw one's self, heavily, clumsily, and unexpectedly on the ground. [Colloq.] Dickens.
LUBBERLY adv.
Clumsily; awkwardly. Dryden.
LUMBER v.
To make a sound as if moving heavily or clumsily; to rumble. Cowper.
PATCH v.
To mend with pieces; to repair with pieces festened on; to repair clumsily; as, to patch the roof of a house.
PATCHWORK n.
; hence, anything put together of incongruous or ill-adapted parts; something irregularly clumsily composed; a thing putched up. Swift.
STUMP v.
To walk clumsily, as if on stumps. To stump up, to pay cash. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.
THUMB v.
To play with the thumb or thumbs; to play clumsily; to thrum.
WADDLE v.
eps, swaying the body from one side to the other, like a duck or very fat person; to move clumsily and totteringly along; to toddle; to stumble; as, a child waddles when he begins to walk; a goose waddles. Shak. She drawls her words, and waddles in her pace. Young.
WOODENLY adv.
Clumsily; stupidly; blockishly. R. North.