Sentence examples for clumsy wording from inspiring English sources

That clumsy wording was eradicated in all later drafts, including the one submitted for publication.

The clumsy wording of the question meant it was not clear whether those who answered positively were inspired to go and see it, or put off.

The rather clumsy wording suggests that Kerry might have been spirited away from Washington over the Labor Day weekend to break bread with Assad at a secret CIA site.

'Love' is a clumsy word the way we use it.

It is a very beautiful book for one thing, strikingly conceived and hauntingly written, a writer's novel par excellence without a clumsy word in it.

I'm already preparing for a time when what I need to say can't be expressed in clumsy words alone – and PopKey has anticipated that need.

But how refreshing to encounter the clumsy words in a seemingly heartfelt song rather than one more well-vetted statement.

Bertie is talented enough to fit my clumsy words into the song with her incredible delivery, but in the end we agreed to scrap my original lyrics and she turned out something much better.

(Can you think of a clumsier word than "fisherpeople?" No? Well, Sir Tim Rice can).

In French, the word for left, gauche, means clumsy; the word for right, droit, gives us the term adroit.

In my twenties I started a beat poetry band and expressed my creative zest for beats and words with some enthusiastic, albeit clumsy, spoken-word.