as in clumsily
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Social-media platforms are filled with short-form videos that clumsily grapple with stigmas surrounding height supremacy.
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What was being clumsily promoted was a potentially transformative piece of technology — a way to evaluate player performance, in tune with an algorithm that had been taught to think like Capello himself.
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The collapse of the Constitution’s balance of powers between three branches of government got us into an unneeded war conducted ineptly.
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Dancing the Poznan really ineptly, mind you, but dancing nonetheless.
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Cox, entering the game, just stood there, awkwardly marooned in foul territory.
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His standing leg is bent awkwardly beneath him, his striking leg fully extended and his body rotating.
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“Ham-handedly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ham-handedly. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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