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adjective

cumbersome adj.

Burdensome or hindering, as a weight or drag; embarrassing; vexatious; cumbrous. "To perform a cumbersome obedience."

Not easily managed; as, a cumbersome contrivance or machine. "He holds them in utter contempt, as lumbering, cumbersome, circuitous."

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Etymology of 'Cumbersome'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Cumbersome" Quotes from Famous Books

... narrow and dark, the banner was large and cumbersome, while the lady that bore it was nervous and weak. It is not strange, then, that Maggie, who slept at no great distance, was awakened by a tremendous crash, as of someone falling the entire length of the tower stairs, while a voice, frightened ...

— Maggie Miller • Mary J. Holmes

... The latter would be rather too cumbersome to carry about," said the Count. "However, let us set forth, or we shall not have time to return before the evening." Fortunately they found a Trek-Schuit just starting for the far-famed ...

— Voyages and Travels of Count Funnibos and Baron Stilkin • William H. G. Kingston

... the walls had ears, the meal made its appearance with that silent celerity which the retired Anglo-Indian—who has sworn at native servants for thirty years—misses so keenly, when he is relegated to the cumbersome ministrations of ...

— The Great Amulet • Maud Diver

... the thorny nature of this issue, which he illustrated with the example of the cumbersome process involved in putting a copy of a scientific database on a LAN in LC's science reading room. He also acknowledged that LC needs help and could enlist the energies and talents of Workshop participants in thinking through a number of ...

— LOC WORKSHOP ON ELECTRONIC TEXTS • James Daly

... end," I cried; and he groped on into the narrower part, Bob and I looking into the slippery grotto-like place enjoying his slow cumbersome manner, and paying no heed to the fact that the tide had turned, and that already a little water had run into the little pool where we ...

— Devon Boys - A Tale of the North Shore • George Manville Fenn

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