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Synonyms for clunky
ˈklʌŋ kiclunky

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  1. gawky, clumsy, clunky, ungainly, unwieldyadjective

    lacking grace in movement or posture

    "a gawky lad with long ungainly legs"; "clumsy fingers"; "what an ungainly creature a giraffe is"; "heaved his unwieldy figure out of his chair"

    Synonyms:
    incompetent, fumbling, inept, unmanageable, gawky, ill-chosen, bungling, inapt, ungainly, cumbersome, awkward, unwieldy, clumsy, bunglesome

    Antonyms:
    graceful, unhearable, inaudible

  2. clunkyadjective

    making a clunking sound

    Synonyms:
    gawky, unwieldy, clumsy, ungainly

    Antonyms:
    graceful, unhearable, inaudible

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  1. James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology:

    The security theater we are witnessing in our election system boasting the illusion of security via ‘clunky as heck’ and air gap defense will do nothing against the real and sophisticated adversarial landscape that is zeroing in on our democracy

  2. Ryan Erwin:

    We are well organized. We understand what it takes to win, and we are keeping our head down and focused on the task at hand, a caucus is, by its nature, is a clunky process and difficult to understand -- it's not what people are used to doing.

  3. Linda Gorman:

    It’s a really clunky program and turned into this behemoth.

  4. Jamie Raskin:

    We don't want it to read like a clunky committee effort, we want it to have an authorial voice that tells the story of what happened.

  5. Olga Vasileva:

    The design of desktop Wikipedia [ has ]... not seen any substantive changes for the past 10 years, leaving certain elements of the site's navigation feeling clunky and overwhelming.


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