clunkier; clunkiest
: clumsy in style, form, or execution
a clunky thriller
clunky earrings
Examples of clunky in a Sentence
I drive a clunky old station wagon.
His act was full of clunky one-liners.
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Zackery Cuevas, PC Magazine, 14 Apr. 2026
The big-market, last-place Cubs are 6-8 after Saturday afternoon’s clunky 4-3 loss to the Pittsburgh Pirates, which lasted 3 hours and 40 minutes over 11 innings at Wrigley Field.
—Patrick Mooney, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2026
Maybe some clunky intelligence operation?
—Robert Faturechi, ProPublica, 11 Apr. 2026
Companies won’t need whole teams to coordinate in clunky, unproductive meetings; one AI with a few humans will get the job done cheaper and faster.
—Solo Ceesay, Rolling Stone, 10 Apr. 2026
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“Clunky.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/clunky. Accessed 25 Apr. 2026.
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