CLUMSILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does clumsily mean? 

• CLUMSILY (adverb)
  The adverb CLUMSILY has 1 sense:

1. in a clumsy manner

  Familiarity information: CLUMSILY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CLUMSILY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a clumsy manner

Context example:

he snatched the bills clumsily

Pertainym:

clumsy (lacking grace in movement or posture)

 Context examples 

"I trust I shall not eat long at your expense, sir," was my very clumsily- contrived, unpolished answer.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The bear advanced clumsily a couple of steps, reared up, and gave vent to a tentative growl.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

I have tried to help her, but I daresay I did it clumsily, and scared her from it.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

So he laid himself down; but they managed so clumsily, that the log of wood fell in and was carried away by the stream.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

And at the end of three days I had a windlass which worked clumsily.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Once some bandy-legged, lurching creature, an ant-eater or a bear, scuttled clumsily amid the shadows.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was asserted that he had never written it, that the magazine had faked it very clumsily, or that Martin Eden was emulating the elder Dumas and at the height of success was hiring his writing done for him.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He travelled very clumsily.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Then he slipped out of the pack-straps and clumsily dragged himself into a sitting posture.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

While he was trying his luck in milking, and managing the matter very clumsily, the uneasy beast began to think him very troublesome; and at last gave him such a kick on the head as knocked him down; and there he lay a long while senseless.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)