cumbersomeness love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The quality of being cumbersome or troublesome.

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  • noun The state of being cumbersome

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  • noun trouble in carrying or managing caused by bulk or shape

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Examples

  • One reason was that Congress's cumbersomeness, which is a function of its fractiousness, is a virtue because it makes the government slow and difficult to move.

    December 2005 2005

  • Trying to change American policy with all its cumbersomeness and special interests is like trying to turn around an oil tanker – hard, and takes a lot of time and room.

    Obama: Agent of Change? Well, Agent of Somethin’ « Antiwar.com Blog 2009

  • Chris, I am not sure how much meddling from DOD there is at JPL for example but I am not sure about the associated cumbersomeness.

    Washington Post Takes Note of "Keep Mike" Effort - NASA Watch 2009

  • Two antiphonals from Adelhausen are 53 cm x 37.5 cm and 49 cm x 16.5 cm. 107 We gain a sense of their weight and cumbersomeness in the life of Beli of Liebenberg.

    Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008

  • Claims like "4D" and "the next step after 17 years of Mario" are ridiculous, but this might be an actually easily playable implementation of the co-op+competition concept, after all the cumbersomeness with multiple hardware.

    E3 Post-Mortem 2009

  • The bureaucracy cannot liberalize itself either culturally or politically because its existence as a class depends on its ideological monopoly, which, for all its cumbersomeness, is its sole title to power.

    2009 October 2009

  • The bureaucracy cannot liberalize itself either culturally or politically because its existence as a class depends on its ideological monopoly, which, for all its cumbersomeness, is its sole title to power.

    The Society of the Spectacle-by Guy Debord (translated by Ken Knabb) 2009

  • Fiction works quite well on the kindle but the poor treatment of footnotes, the cumbersomeness of using location numbers ~1 per sentence instead of page numbers, and the poor page/location management features are all big hurdles.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Why Legal Books Are Likely To Go Electronic (Pretty Soon) 2009

  • To me, I see an embedded disgust for the cumbersomeness of state standards.

    Archive 2008-11-01 2008

  • To avoid the fatal cumbersomeness of giant states, a united Europe had to permit local and regional authorities to exercise as much power as possible.16

    The Great Experiment Strobe Talbott 2008

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