Sentence examples for clumsy term from inspiring English sources

"Donor-conceived" is a clumsy term, because, in relation to me, the man in the clinic was not a donor.

"Delmarva Adena," the clumsy term adopted to describe them, refers to the bay peninsula that includes most of Delaware and parts of Maryland and Virginia.

"Community-supported agriculture" is a clumsy term for a business model pioneered in 1986 on two small farms in Massachusetts and New Hampshire.

Political scientists have a clumsy term for the phenomenon of people who seek to avoid offence to telephone or face-to-face polling field-workers: social satisfying.

"Social media" is a clumsy term that entangles enriching social interaction with mindless media consumption.

To reinforce the cleverness of his title, he uses "code" whenever he means "software," making many of his arguments confusing and requiring him to coin the cute but clumsy terms "East Coast Code" (law) and "West Coast Code" (software).

It was emotive with its associations with US history, and it was too clumsy a term to be useful to cover a very complex phenomenon of housing, schooling and employment.

A type of "coming of age" ceremony, to put it in clumsy western terms.

We're generally confined to clumsy gross terms like class, race, and gender, but people are surely more than their component parts or, if not, then an amalgam of very nuanced parts which aren't susceptible to easy definition.

This book has the clumsy (Parks's term), ludicrous yet arresting title "A Headache in the Pelvis".

Then, in a process that can kindly be termed clumsy, Notre Dame interviewed numerous candidates before settling on Weis in December 2004.