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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

... little respite and we paused long enough to lunch, for which breathing space I was duly thankful. The forenoon saw us on the train, Kennedy carrying a large and cumbersome package which he brought down with him from the laboratory and which we took turns in carrying, though he gave no hint ...

— The War Terror • Arthur B. Reeve

... in his heavy cumbersome way. And the sound of his deep voice alone served to ward off the encroachment of that final weakness which, in spite of all her courage, the girl was at last compelled to ...

— The Forfeit • Ridgwell Cullum

... countenance, and a little twist came in her lips where a smile would like to have broken through. She was still in crape, and wore the delicate gossamer of her widow's cap, with long, wing-like streamers falling away at her back; and while she sat at work on a cumbersome knitted shawl she listened with an air of docility to Justina's conversation, without noticing that a touch of dismay was beginning to show itself in John's face; for Miss Fairbairn had begun to speak of Italian literature, a subject she had been getting up ...

— Fated to Be Free • Jean Ingelow

... Pond Morris." This is never done in a social note. Often, upon her marriage a woman includes her maiden name in her signature, thus, "Marion Ames Morris." A hyphen is not used. The four-storied name, as "Marion Helen Ames Morris," is too cumbersome ...

— Mother's Remedies - Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers - of the United States and Canada • T. J. Ritter

... respect gratuities commensurate to the service performed. He sought out an ambitious and talented but poor young woman, and bought for her the star part in a new comedy. He might have gotten rid of $50,000 more of his cumbersome money in this philanthropy if he had not neglected to write letters to her. But she lost the suit for lack of evidence, while his capital still kept piling up, and his optikos needleorum camelibus—or rich man's ...

— Strictly Business • O. Henry

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