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Definition of Clumsinesses
1. clumsiness [n] - See also: clumsiness
Lexicographical Neighbors of Clumsinesses
Literary usage of Clumsinesses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of Architecture in All Countries: From the Earliest Times to the by James Fergusson (1873)
"... of Classic Art to modern times, as nine- tenths of the difficulties and
clumsinesses of the revived Art are owing to the introduction of this feature. ..."
2. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1885)
"Shyness, reserve, clumsinesses of manner, foolish stiffness—these get in part
rubbed off, and the man has, in a sense, a pride at being the ..."
3. The Gentleman's Magazine (1871)
"It was full of slips of the pen, of false grammar, of incomplete sentences, of
repetitions and clumsinesses without end; and all these Scott corrected in ..."
4. Modern Art: Being a Contribution to a New System of æsthetics by Julius Meier-Graefe (1908)
"Gainsborough's clumsinesses are avoided. Reynolds' bodies are never impossible,
like those of his greater colleague. He had learnt to make a body credible ..."
5. The Opera, Past and Present: An Historical Sketch by William Foster Apthorp (1901)
"... except in the matter of a skilful handling of material means— the orchestra
and choral masses; the score is defaced by some mere school-boy clumsinesses ..."
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