clumsinesses

I suck my paws; I live for my dexterities and by my accomplishments; even my clumsinesses are my joy — my woodcuts, my stumbling on the pipe, this surveying even — and even weeding sensitive; anything to do with the mind, with the eye, with the hand — with a part of me; diversion flows in these ways for the dreary man.

Vailima Letters 2005

She was not the first who had been amused by his assorted clumsinesses.

Up In A Heaval Anthony, Piers 2002

Wobblings and heart-breaking clumsinesses of the drone-ships.

Space Tug Murray Leinster 1935

But in other directions the Englishman has certain clumsinesses of his own.

Chapter 4. American and English Today. 3. Honorifics Henry Louis 1921

On the other hand, if you are impressed by what an author has said to you, but are aware of verbal clumsinesses in his work, you need worry about his "bad style" exactly as much and exactly as little as you would worry about the manners of a kindhearted, keen-brained friend who was dangerous to carpets with a tea-cup in his hand.

Literary Taste: How to Form It With Detailed Instructions for Collecting a Complete Library of English Literature Arnold Bennett 1899

The book is not even marred by Mrs. Eddy's peculiar specialty -- lumbering clumsinesses of speech.

Christian Science Mark Twain 1872