Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being unwieldy; heaviness; difficulty of being moved: as, the unwieldiness of a person having a corpulent body. Donne, Love's Diet.
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- noun The characteristic of being
unwieldy .
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- noun the quality of being difficult to direct or control by reason of complexity
- noun trouble in carrying or managing caused by bulk or shape
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Examples
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The failure, if there was a failure, lay within the process, the system, the, "unwieldiness," the too fast a deadline.
Sleepwalking Through History: America in the Reagan Years 1991
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But instead this dinosaur, this Tyrannosaurus rex of rockets that ruled the early nuclear ages, may have—in its very monstrous unwieldiness—as Yarynich put it, saved the world.
How the End Begins Ron Rosenbaum 2011
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The sheer size and unwieldiness of William's homemade instruments made the Herschels' style of astronomy a danger ous business.
A Far-Seeing Family James Kennedy 2011
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For the record, my concerns about The Avengers have more to do with the unwieldiness of the project and those at Marvel than it does with Joss Whedon's capabilities as a filmmaker.
Scott Mendelson: Why Did Paramount Sell off Distribution Rights for Avengers and Iron Man 3 to Disney for a Mere $115 Million? Scott Mendelson 2010
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Lapsang Souchong (sustaining properties), manuscripts (unwieldiness) comments:
Manuscript 3 2009
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For the record, my concerns about The Avengers have more to do with the unwieldiness of the project and those at Marvel than it does with Joss Whedon's capabilities as a filmmaker.
Scott Mendelson: Why Did Paramount Sell off Distribution Rights for Avengers and Iron Man 3 to Disney for a Mere $115 Million? Scott Mendelson 2010
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FSG (generosity), manuscripts (unwieldiness) comments:
Manuscript 2009
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But instead this dinosaur, this Tyrannosaurus rex of rockets that ruled the early nuclear ages, may have—in its very monstrous unwieldiness—as Yarynich put it, saved the world.
How the End Begins Ron Rosenbaum 2011
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Lapsang Souchong (sustaining properties), manuscripts (unwieldiness)
Archive 2009-09-01 2009
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The practical effect of this unwieldiness is visible, on a much smaller scale, in the office of Michael Leiter, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center.
Top Secret America: The growth of top-secret government since 9/11 William M. Arkin 2010
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