lumpen

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Inability and awkwardness
accident-prone
adorkable
all thumbsidiom
amateurish
amateurishly
fumbling
fumblingly
functional illiteracy
gauche
gauchely
inexpert
inexpertly
jack-of-all-trades
jack-of-all-trades, master of noneidiom
klutzy
uncoordinated
uneducable
unenterprising
unequal
ungainly

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Stupid and silly

Examples of lumpish

lumpish
Thus, also, you pass from the lumpish grub in the earth to the airy and fluttering butterfly.
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Keep that lumpish air for your doctoral uniform.
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I soon fell into the work, and scarcely needed the instructions of the lumpish, growling engineer.
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You hear no strains of country drollery, and no characters of curious or eccentric humor; all is dull, plodding, and lumpish.
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It is a soft lumpish sort of creature, with a great number of short arms and tentacles around the mouth, none armed with suckers.
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His lumpish face was deeply seamed and wrinkled.
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He had a lumpish, thick-featured face, with lips heavy and loosely hanging, that gave him an air of stupidity, half droll, half pathetic.
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Done in brute silence, with a lumpish look and a clumsy gait, the work was perfectly well done nevertheless.
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At forty-nine the lumpish promise of his youth was quite gone.
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His inert, lumpish form was at the moment hideously repulsive to her, and physical contact with him a dreaded thing.
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He used a lover's language, but his letter was as cold and lumpish as a golden ingot.
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She regarded the waxy-looking, lumpish, partially translucent forms with some distaste.
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A solid fellow, heavy to lift in his present lumpish condition of dead-weight!
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