The word "clumsiness" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe someone who is awkward in their physical movements, or to describe an awkward or misguided action. Example: Despite his clumsiness, he was able to expertly thread a needle.
It is a genuine linguistic affliction that causes confusion and imbues our everyday speech with a clumsiness and imprecision that can be maddening.
If we touch in passing, it is clumsiness, not affection.
A recurring theme was that Mr Bush, by his clumsiness, led America into unnecessary dilemmas.
A kind of ursine Jacques Tati, the well-meaning Paddington caused chaos wherever he went through a mixture of clumsiness and cultural misunderstanding; the best moments usually involved his clashes with pompous British officialdom.A new film version, directed and written by Paul King, focuses on a quality for which the British once prided themselves a welcoming attitude towards refugees.
Indeed, the financial crash and American clumsiness and miscalculations, especially under George Bush, have shown up liberal democracy as an unsightly blend of ideology and hypocrisy.That may be an accurate description of popular belief in some areas of the world, though in India, parts of Africa and eastern Europe, Mr Bush was a lot more popular than he was in western Europe and the Arab world.
Although miffed by Venezuela's political clumsiness he is happy to take its subsidised oil.
He is now minister of work and pensions, and responsible for welfare reform.In recent days they have clashed, and it is the politician's clumsiness which seems to be at fault.
It understood what Mr Prodi was getting at.The commission and the parliament ought to have plenty in common indeed it is something of a tribute to Mr Santer's clumsiness that they should have rubbed along so badly in recent years.
The clumsiness of the chancellor's NATO initiative (which he could not explain in person because of illness) is a reminder of why he needs a foreign minister who is usually good with the Americans, if not always with his compatriots.
That same day, with breathtaking clumsiness, the government appealed against a pensions-tribunal decision to increase the compensation awarded to a pair of wounded soldiers.One of the soldiers was shot in the leg in Iraq, and is now serving in Afghanistan.
But his clumsiness may have put that at risk.
