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 Leslie played along, pretending to be a klutz who liked being harshed by a pre-school kid. Noor Hassan, Rolling Stone, 21 June 2025 While one side of the frame shows Pia racing to meet her mother at the bank, conveying her struggle as a hapless klutz, the other half displays a henna ceremony interstitial, elegantly establishing the beauty of tradition and community. Courtney Howard, Variety, 6 Mar. 2025 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 Gender-flipping a few genre tropes — like showing the guy as the klutz and having the girl chase him down to proclaim her love — no longer passes for subversive. Courtney Howard, Variety, 28 Mar. 2025 While one side of the frame shows Pia racing to meet her mother at the bank, conveying her struggle as a hapless klutz, the other half displays a henna ceremony interstitial, elegantly establishing the beauty of tradition and community. Courtney Howard, Variety, 6 Mar. 2025 Playing Dawn Summers, Trachtenberg joined the show in 2000, as Buffy's younger sister, who was at times bratty, sulky, and a bit of a klutz — but nonetheless offered a new and exciting sibling dynamic for the show to explore. Shania Russell, EW.com, 26 Feb. 2025 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for klutz
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
  • The English-language dub will be distributed by A24 and CMC Pictures, with releases planned for the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
    Conor Murray, Forbes.com, 9 July 2025
  • James Carter Cathcart, the voice actor known for portraying multiple characters in the English-language dubs of numerous Pokémon projects, died Tuesday morning at Calvary Hospital in the Bronx, New York City.
    Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 10 July 2025
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
  • One of the synthetic pyrethroids could also help control the young lubber grasshoppers.
    Tom MacCubbin, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 Apr. 2025
  • Unlike other grasshopper species which are winged and agile, the lubber can't fly.
    Adriana Brasileiro, orlandosentinel.com, 19 July 2019
Noun
  • In a flat city where all private and public property is organized into rectangles and triangles aligned with the principal points of the compass, Lincoln Yards is defined by a series of wedges, lumps and lobes that don’t adjoin with the rest of the Chicago street map.
    F.K. Plous, Chicago Tribune, 11 July 2025
  • Everyday Comfort smoothing panty for a completely smooth silhouette without any bumps or lumps.
    Jené Luciani Sena may earn a commission if you buy through our referral links. This content was created by a team that works independently from the Fox newsroom., FOXNews.com, 20 June 2025

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“Klutz.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/klutz. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.

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