as in lummox
a clumsy, awkward person how can she be such a klutz after studying ballet for so many years?

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Recent Examples of klutz Join for hilarious segments like kids on the naughty list, Christmas klutzes, and those hilariously fed up with the festivities. Rebecca Angel Baer, Southern Living, 27 Nov. 2024 On-the-go photographers, field workers, and hopeless klutzes will want to give this tough drive a strong second look. John Burek, PCMAG, 10 July 2024 In the beginning, Black’s Po was a klutz who trained himself to earn the title of Dragon Warrior, a name given to his region’s greatest martial artist. Amy Nicholson, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2024 And yet, this political klutz is paving the way for Schiff to win the seat vacated by legendary Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s death last year. Jim Newton, The Mercury News, 15 Feb. 2024 Someone who had a tendency to fall might win the award for biggest klutz. Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Oct. 2023 The other guy’s a klutz. Pamela Weintraub, Discover Magazine, 30 May 2012 On a popular sketch-comedy show, Ben-Gvir is presented as an amiable klutz. Ruth Margalit, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2023 Phillipa Soo’s Cinderella is a gentle-souled, indecisive dreamer — and a pratfalling klutz with a sharp but guileless sense of humor. Naveen Kumar, Variety, 10 July 2022
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Noun
  • Over nearly two centuries, the herbivore has been imagined as a spike-nosed lummox, inappropriate kangaroo and now, at last, a stiff-tailed, mostly quadrupedal animal.
    Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 20 Apr. 2017
  • Fraser was everywhere in the 1990s and early 2000s: a sweetly handsome, blue-eyed lummox whose starring roles established him as a perpetual naif.
    Ty Burr, Washington Post, 1 Dec. 2022
Noun
  • Predictably enough, when the NFL experimented with Week 1 dual dubs from 2021-23, neither CBS nor Fox managed to put up their usual 25 million-plus numbers.
    Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 13 Dec. 2024
  • If the starting video was made in one of those languages, YouTube will only produce an English dub.
    Wes Davis, The Verge, 10 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Here, the blurring is visual: Sometimes Leonard floats into the past looking like Gere, who wears the character without a shred of self-protection as the lens gawks at his raw skin.
    Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2024
  • The Esprit's shape, arguably more avant-garde despite its age, consistently pegs the gawk meter.
    John Phillips, Car and Driver, 18 June 2020
Noun
  • Land lubbers hike: Lace up those shoes for a 9 to 11 a.m. excursion on Sunday, Oct. 20, to Ansel’s Cave in The West Woods in Russell Township.
    Joan Rusek, cleveland, 30 Sep. 2019
  • Water-lubbers can easily access freshwater lakes, rural flatland and woodland forests.
    Amy Aumick, OrlandoSentinel.com, 15 May 2018
Noun
  • Variations include banh canh cua, which is often a thick soup with lumps of crab, and banh canh cha ca, a thinner broth with fish cakes that’s popular in south central Vietnam.
    Christina Liao, Vogue, 27 Dec. 2024
  • Steroid injections: Corticosteroid injections may help shrink inflamed lumps and provide quick relief from pain and swelling.
    Lindsay Curtis, Health, 24 Dec. 2024

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“Klutz.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/klutz. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.

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