Sentence examples for to avoid clumsy from inspiring English sources

They have been more careful to qualify speculation, indicate sources and to avoid clumsy phrases such as 'Muslim terrorists'.

This was due in part to his extraordinary balance and agility, which allowed him to avoid clumsy challenges, and the toughness he had built up from spending his adolescence working in the mines.

Girly girls should be ladylike and graceful at all times, so try to avoid being clumsy and awkward.

But I suspect that the Inland Revenue, Britain's tax authority, will jump very heavily on anyone trying to use clumsy ploys to avoid the tax, like redefining employment as partnerships or nominal relocation of place of work.

It was a clumsy attempt to avoid them falling into the hands of Shintaro Ishihara, a right-wing China-baiter who was governor of Tokyo until late last year.Yet China insisted that the move was an anti-China conspiracy to strengthen Japan's claim.

To avoid recognition, he donned a clumsy disguise consisting of a baseball cap, sunglasses and a faked limp.

1.03pm GMT 16 min: Buttner is booked for a late lunge across Albrighton, who did well to avoid injury by hurdling over the clumsy challenge.

He feels clumsy and inferior and, to avoid humiliation, avoids physical activity.

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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.

I also realise what's going on: I am clumsy and cowardly, so I grate my butter cautiously to avoid losing bits of finger in the process.