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  • Linux needs to be user-friendly, while still allowing us technophiles to get our hands dirty. apt-checkpoint, while rough and cludgy, is just an example of the kind of usability people need.

    stonetable.org » apt-checkpoint 0.1 released 2004

  • Linux needs to be user-friendly, while still allowing us technophiles to get our hands dirty. apt-checkpoint, while rough and cludgy, is just an example of the kind of usability people need.

    stonetable.org » 2004 » May 2004

  • I am happy that my President got this through, even though it is a clumsy, cludgy patchwork in comparison to the elegance of what I would have wanted: a Medicare +10% buy in, leading to an expansion until all these overlapping health systems connect.

    Archive 2010-03-01 Steven Barnes 2010

  • I am happy that my President got this through, even though it is a clumsy, cludgy patchwork in comparison to the elegance of what I would have wanted: a Medicare +10% buy in, leading to an expansion until all these overlapping health systems connect.

    Why I'm not gloating Steven Barnes 2010

  • Do the enhanced immersive qualities of watching vaguely cartooney, low-res people awkwardly getting it on -- rather than reading well-written prose detailing the action -- actually make up for the cludgy chat interface?

    Making an Environment Conducive to Cybersex 2008

  • Even still, entering a new diary entry with a text message is far easier than entering it with cludgy phone interfaces and controls ..

    F*cking awesome technology, shame about the name « Squash 2006

  • Still in Beta and a little cludgy, it seems a bit like a Librarything that can include DVDs and music

    davidrothman.net » 2006 » July 2006

  • Silent Hill 2 annoyed me because the clearly outlined puzzle was getting too cludgy for me, killing my buzz.

    The Ghost Train Greg Tannahill 2006

  • Still in Beta and a little cludgy, it seems a bit like a Librarything that can include DVDs and music

    davidrothman.net » GuruLib 2006

  • Bespoke 2D side-scrolling sections, meanwhile, can be a lot more spectacular but are still, if we're being honest, a little cludgy.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

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