The phrase "clumsy appearance" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that has an awkward, haphazard, or ungainly look. For example, "The clumsy appearance of the room was caused by the miscellaneous items strewn about carelessly."
The simple answer is to buy a $30 rubber "bumper case" for the iPhone 4 and put up with the clumsy appearance and difficulty of plugging the device into various attachments.
In his Arcana; or The Museum of Natural History (1881), the naturalist George Perry was severely censorious of the koala's "sluggishness and inactivity", and thought its "clumsy appearance" was "void of elegance".
With the help of LVAs, a significant improvement of distance and/or near vision or visual field was observed in 243 patients, of whom 185 accepted LVAs and 58 patients refused due to high price, inconvenience, young age (≤6 y), clumsy appearance and ignorance.
Although clumsy in appearance, bears can move surprisingly fast, even through dense cover that would seriously impede a human or a horse.
Redding received advice from Rufus Thomas about his clumsy stage appearance.
This has benefits such as you being more alert, being quicker to think and to learn, and having better physical co-ordination (meaning less clumsy mistakes!) Appearance wise - when well slept, you will have less puffiness/ dark circles around the eyes and less pale skin.
Some clumsy media appearances, in which Mr Clarke sought to clarify what he said without apologising for it, followed soon after.
(Some clumsy media appearances later vindicated Rose's initial reluctance, and he quickly stepped back from public advocacy. "Rose was like a world-class rugby player who was handed cricket pads and expected to bat," said one senior source campaign source).
Abnormal phosphorylated tau-protein, however, occurs in neurons but it shows in addition to a somatic distribution, a characteristic staining of spines often exhibiting a clumsy, grain-like appearance [ 39].
Other measures appear clumsy.
