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单词 unwieldy
释义 un·wieldy
\-dē, -di\ adjective
also un·wield·ly \-dlē, -li\
Etymology: unwieldy from Middle English unweldy, from un- (I) + weldy wieldy; unwieldly alteration (influenced by -ly) of unwieldy
1. obsolete : characterized by debility : feeble, infirm
 < time the taste destroys, with sickness and unwieldy years — John Dryden >
2.
 a. : hard to handle or control : awkward, cumbersome
  < the increasingly unwieldy colonial organization — Marjory S. Douglas >
  < on the unwieldy circus train the going is tedious and filled with fits and starts — R.L.Taylor >
 b. : not useful or workable : involved, impractical
  < some of its rules are so unwieldy that many of the simplest things … are often the most difficult to prove — B.N.Cardozo >
  < brilliant hypotheses and all too often unwieldy ideas — D.M.Schneider >
3.
 a. : disproportionately large or clumsy : ungainly
  < his unwieldy mouth wearing the jealous leer proper to his profession — Herbert Gold >
  < any word becomes unwieldy … when its spread of emotional sail overbalances the lead and oak that ought to carry cargo — Archibald MacLeish >
 b. : massive in size : huge, hulking
  < heaved his unwieldy figure out of his chair — Moray Firth >
  < discourage unwieldy … corporate surpluses — F.D.Roosevelt >
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