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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
- 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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