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Discover LudwigThe phrase "clumsy of" is not correct or usable in written English.
A more accurate and commonly used phrase would be "clumsy of me" or "clumsy of him/her/them". For example, "I dropped the vase; clumsy of me."
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It is bafflingly clumsy of the Agency to have so alienated her.
"It was clumsy of me, and I wasn't quick enough to help," he said.
"It was clumsy of me, although I still maintain that changes have to be made".
We tried to scramble back over the fence, but the more clumsy of us got stuck on the barbed wire.
A coil of pink ribbon was caught around Mr. Beresford's shoe; the old lady said, "It was clumsy of me, leaving my bag right in the aisle".
We, your tentative, inexperienced readers, shy of hosepipe and clumsy of secateur, appreciate your attempts to make our lives more beautiful.
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There's no hardware, iPads, or clumsy point-of-sale systems to integrate or train employees on.
SHIFTING consumer tastes and changing regulations have forced even the clumsiest of retail behemoths to be more fleet-footed.
But the clumsiest of golfers can hack up the same hallowed turf as that trodden by the greats.
Among the clumsiest of the works are recent collages incorporating fish and crab shapes cut from sheets of mica.
In fact, the euro's architects were veterans of the clumsy collapse of the euro's predecessor, the European Exchange Rate mechanism.
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