Sentence examples for politically clumsy from inspiring English sources

Early in his tenure, he was criticized as politically clumsy in lobbying for bigger school budgets.

But the board has also been politically clumsy, and prone to micromanagement.

He is artless and politically clumsy, and wears his egotism on his sleeve.

It was politically clumsy or refreshingly blunt, depending on how you see her candidacy.

But when his stumbles were lampooned by Chevy Chase, the humor resonated because Americans deemed Mr. Ford politically clumsy.

He considers her politically clumsy, and it is true that many Democrats winced when she sullied her campaign victory tour by advocating the abolition of the Electoral College.

Given the trauma inflicted on the Justice Department by "loyal Bushies" -- meddling by political operatives, the clumsy and politically motivated firing of U.S. attorneys, a partisan litmus test for nonpolitical positions -- Obama would have been wiser to follow the Ford-Levi precedent.

The move against Mr Enkhbayar, he says, was both clumsy and politically motivated.The timing is fraught.

Whether this week's clumsy sequence of press conferences, leaks and alerts was politically motivated or not, the threat to the U.S. is both real and grave.

The clumsy firing of Executive Director Charles Lester in February, by the politically appointed commissioners, was a debacle that demoralized the agency's paid staff and enraged hundreds of people up and down the coast.

At best, it was a clumsy choice of words from Sacchi but, while others have perhaps been more politically correct in their statements, the issue of foreigners in the game on the peninsula has always been a divisive one.