unwieldy
IPA: ʌnwˈiɫdi
adjective
- (obsolete) Lacking strength; weak.
- (obsolete) Ungraceful in movement.
- Difficult to carry, handle, manage or operate because of its size, weight, shape or complexity.
- Badly managed or operated.
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Examples of "unwieldy" in Sentences
- The table of contents is very unwieldy.
- The old article was unwieldy and cumbersome.
- The ancient original is unwieldy and ghastly.
- But the list in the article is getting unwieldy.
- The list of links is becoming large and unwieldy.
- As it is, the size of the article makes it unwieldy.
- But the former is somewhat more unwieldy than the latter.
- The title is huge and unwieldy and the groups are lopsided.
- Its relative heaviness made it unwieldy and, thus, easily avoided.
- It is not like the remittance article is too large or unwieldy as it stands.
- Then came the idea of the ‘post-bureaucratic age’ — in itself the kind of unwieldy phrase you might expect a bureaucrat to use.
- There is something thoroughly modernist about Burtynsky's work, the grand scale, the glorious detail, a kind of unwieldy whole.
- I saw one day a herd of a dozen bullocks and cows running about and frisking in unwieldy sport, like huge rats, even like kittens.
- The title is unwieldy, but the book—set in present-day Guyana—is a deft synthesis of travelogue and Bildungsroman, by turns antic and introspective.
- Fans of the original surely recall the unwieldy and annoying mini-game that was more enjoyable if you had auto-hack tools or just bought them out with Ryanbucks.
- Eugenie Allen says Leslie "doesn't do this loaded issue justice, '' because she" uses a battering ram '' to make her points, and so The Feminine Mistake is "unwieldy" and "polarizing."
- (Compare that with the approach of the Federal Communications Commission, which allows only limited searching of filings and comments; or that of the Department of Justice, which puts out data on foreign lobbying in unwieldy PDF format and binders.)