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comparative more clumsily, superlative most clumsily
In a clumsy manner or way; without care or finesse, often hurriedly or awkwardly. quotations examples
But, bowing with sketchily joined hands, they smiled their way clumsily out, down to the darkness.
1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 514