Sentence examples for a clumsy attempt from inspiring English sources

Instead, it had been a clumsy attempt at humour.

If it was a clumsy attempt to access the hotel's network, it thankfully failed.

The IRS's defenders insist that a few low-level functionaries simply made a clumsy attempt at an administrative short-cut.

Indeed, in a clumsy attempt to finesse that rejection, it did not even produce a revised platform for this election.

The adviser called the move "a clumsy attempt to balance the administration's more distant stance on China".

For some, Cameron will always be the man who wrecked his country in a clumsy attempt to save his party.

What may be a money box teeters precariously on a step, a clumsy attempt at spatial illusion.

Put so baldly this may seem crass, but there's much more to this behaviour than a clumsy attempt at seduction.

Shipman was exposed by the seediest con-trick of the shady professional, a clumsy attempt to forge a client's will.

The status symbols of any era are a clumsy attempt to be like the heroes of the age.

Prof. Bishop points out "it seems like a clumsy attempt to discredit Putin, so that people don't take him seriously.