cumbersome

IPA: kˈʌmbɝsʌm

adjective

Burdensome or hindering, as if a weight or drag; vexatious
Not easily managed or handled; awkward; clumsy.
Hard, difficult, demanding to handle or get around with.
Inert, lumbering, slow in movement

Examples of "cumbersome" in Sentences

The list is large and cumbersome.
His clothes are cumbersome and ostentatious.
The old article was unwieldy and cumbersome.
The title is cumbersome and overly specific.
The reference system is arcane and cumbersome.
The list of characters is particularly cumbersome.
The title seems to be rather cumbersome at the minute.
That results in cumbersome procedures for many passengers.
In fact the image layout is pretty cumbersome on the article.
It is cumbersome and greatly misleading, and it sounds sycophantic.
Images of the individual coins in the template would be cumbersome.
As a user, I find it cumbersome, which is something to seriously consider when choosing a blogging tool.
"Everything we did was either in a spreadsheet or Word document, or through e-mail," Maher, recalls the cumbersome manual process.
In contrast to all of this, Canada's approach to government intervention appears cumbersome, is reactive and apologetic, and in the end our methods are simply obsolete.
They are not the suits you would actually use: the aim here is simulation, not replication, so they are merely very cumbersome, which is what the real suits would have to be.
It also seems to me that on the core amnesty point, what the negotiators came up with was simultaneously unduly cumbersome from a humanitarian point of view while also not in any way appeasing restrictionist concerns.
In this “liberalised” regime why create, innovate and trade in cumbersome goods when one can make far more far quickly and with far less risk just by moving money (data) and money instruments between computers around the world?
Efforts to streamline local government, largely tabled this year as legislators grappled with property-tax issues, could gain momentum under a new coalition that is pushing for changes in a system described as cumbersome and redundant.
Italy is the last country to hold out against the European arrest warrant that lists 32 different crimes, including the hard-to-define one of xenophobia, that will do away what is often described as the cumbersome system of extradition.
The most likely outcome of the grand-jury investigation, experts said, would be a report recommending administrative changes, which Dan Castleman , former chief of investigations at the Manhattan district attorney's office called a "cumbersome process" that could take years.

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