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Grammar : Adv
Spell : kuhm-bruh s
Phonetic Transcription : ˈkʌm brəs



Definition of cumbrously

Origin :
  • late 14c., "cumbersome, troublesome, clumsy, unwieldy," from cumber + -ous.
  • As in hard : adv with difficulty
Example sentences :
  • Till she went, four days later, she was curiously still, he cumbrously affectionate.
  • Extract from : « Babbitt » by Sinclair Lewis
  • His knees were bent and his cumbrously shod feet pointed far outward from his line of progress.
  • Extract from : « Tales From Bohemia » by Robert Neilson Stephens
  • It rolled slowly and heavily as if cumbrously laden, under the paved gateway; and after a few minutes, all was silent.
  • Extract from : « Tales from Blackwood, Volume 7 » by Various
  • Mr. Chadband moves softly and cumbrously, not unlike a bear who has been taught to walk upright.
  • Extract from : « Bleak House » by Charles Dickens
  • But things moved slowly and cumbrously at this first assembling of the new government.
  • Extract from : « The Critical Period of American History » by John Fiske
  • Their pack mules were so cumbrously loaded as to suggest country wagons piled with hay.
  • Extract from : « A Waif of the Mountains » by Edward S. Ellis

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