"a clumsy step" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a physical action that was not executed gracefully. For example, "He took a clumsy step and tripped over his own feet."
And as they trade barbs, dreams of the dictator's miraculous survival and the doctor's happy family turn shaky "like a child's castle of blocks between them, ready to collapse at a single clumsy step".
These money diaries, self-obsessed as they can be, might serve as a clumsy first step in that project.
But it took almost three hours of Bruce Springsteen's powerhouse rock'n'roll, protest gospel and blue-collar country to bring a true sense of heroism to IOW's clumsy step into Glastonbury's mighty wellies....... Tweet us your own reviews – #gdnreview.
One clumsy step during Carpenter's performance earlier this week, and the historic MacDonald could have been just that -- history.
Rose took a clumsy two-step and crushed his ACL, ending his season and, possibly the longterm playoff hopes of a (still) deep Chicago Bulls basketball team.
Paint remnants: an encircled H. Another step – because these were clumsy steps with which it came – and all the main mass was out of the water and raining brine.
There's no sense of struggle or self-mastery in the notion, no appearance of effort to overcome clumsy steps or impulsive actions; she's instantly remade as a model young executive, sanded and polished for her place in life — or, rather, in the movie.
He notes the early theatre and TV work, the first clumsy steps in movies, the slow advance in technique and ease, rightly identifying the unremarkable comedy On the Fiddle as the first full-fledged manifestation of Connery's particular charisma.
I made a clumsy stab at a reply.
What may be a money box teeters precariously on a step, a clumsy attempt at spatial illusion.
