The phrase "clumsy conversation" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to a conversation that is awkward, ungraceful, or lacking in finesse. Example: Despite their efforts, the two old friends could not seem to find a comfortable rhythm in their conversation. It was a clumsy conversation, filled with long pauses and forced small talk.
It's an old man making a clumsy offensive conversation about race, following making clumsy offensive conversation about gay people.
Christine is depicted as socially awkward contentious, sarcastic, detached, clumsy in conversation, insensitive to social cues; her on-air presence similarly tended to be stiff and unemotional.
He has McCarthy's backing, and as chief deputy whip, he has more experience at whipping votes than Scalise, who has been aggressive with the press but is "quite clumsy" in his conversations with members, according to one GOP source close to the process.
Edith's mother made desperate clumsy efforts at proper conversation.
"Maybe Forever" is a landscape littered with rusty physical conversation, with clumsy duets and solos and flashes of penetrating insight, and with bits of everyday life, like a discarded pair of white high heels and a bright-orange sequined party dress at the piece's sad ending.
We started in Russian but when the conversation started becoming clumsy I asked if we could switch to English.
The price for this instant conversation-starter is clumsy entry and exit over bench-size door sills, and the odd whack of the noggin against the raised portals.
Mr. Alfredson directed the second movie as well, and his work is again essentially functional, limited to clumsy action sequences and television-ready conversations.
Wooden and self-conscious, he was clumsy at the natural give and take of conversation.
The men shared a clumsy body language that indicated neither one embraced the conversation.
