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unwieldy

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1. unwieldy - Adjective

2. unwieldy - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Not easily wielded or carried; unmanageable; bulky; ponderous.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Examples

Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them. Henry David Thoreau

But America is a great, unwieldy Body. Its Progress must be slow. It is like a large Fleet sailing under Convoy. The fleetest Sailors must wait for the dullest and slowest. Like a Coach and six-the swiftest Horses must be slackened and the slowest quickened, that all may keep an even Pace. John Adams

And rather than make the book unwieldy I have eschewed notes-reluctantly when some obscure passage or allusion seemed to ask for a timely word; with more equanimity when the temptation was to criticize or 'appreciate.' For the function of the anthologist includes criticizing in silence. Arthur Quiller-Couch

I often start with a question as big and unwieldy as why do we have children – or what are we investing in when we love and raise our children; it's a process of looking for structures – images or rhetorical figures – that will contain my questions. Gregory Pardlo

The ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It's not so easily tamed or subdued. Alan Ball

Once you begin reviewing judgment calls, which in basketball there are many, you put yourself on a very slippery slope in terms of what could be reviewed, and ultimately the number of reviews that could take place that would make it unwieldy. Stu Jackson

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