Sentence examples for clumsy purposes from inspiring English sources

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Football has developed a voracious appetite for stealing, commandeering and recycling phrases from elsewhere for its own (invariably clumsy) purposes.

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WORST: Cluttered, clumsy design.

Plan kept at bay the kind of housing crisis that London now faces, built outstanding council housing at Churchill Gardens and Golden Lane, created open spaces and new towns, built roads which, however clumsy, serve a purpose, and enabled places of education with the qualities of the best post-war schools.

Being clumsy and weak on purpose will not make you sexy it will just make you seem ditsy.

The Irish monks introduced to the British speakers the custom of writing down the vernacular language at about the end of the 8th century; they adapted the clumsy Irish orthography for that purpose.

The plot device may be clumsy, but it serves its purpose of putting Guilbert aboard this doomed, drifting ship of state while absolving him of any moral compromise; he's only along for the ride.

Mr. Chasanoff contended that he touched the girl because she was shaking and nervous, not for any prurient purpose, and that his remark, while clumsy, was made out of pride.

I argue against them because they are a clumsy attempt to hold power; they are not rules about leadership for purpose.

He is raising a din of clanking pots and clumsy feet, so loud you figure he must be doing it on purpose.

At worst, it's clumsy and underfed, a reminder that all of that ornamentation served a purpose".

Bottom line: unless this operation was planned by a clumsy and unsupervised Iranian intelligence officer, now behind bars in Tehran, this operation must have had purposes other than traditional espionage.

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