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Adjective(1) difficult to handle or use especially because of size or weight

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(1) Clearly, members were unhappy with the cumbrous nature of the rulemaking process.(2) Her treatise has the usual cumbrous apparatus of scholarly citation, though I did wonder about her methods of research.(3) The parry of prime which was effectual enough when a heavy cut was to be stopped was too slow and cumbrous to keep pace with the nimbler thrust.(4) Without decimals, Europe would have remained trapped in the cumbrous Roman system of numeration.(5) If that be so he will have a choice, which will often be a choice between the old, cumbrous , costly, on the one hand, the modern, rapid, cheap, on the other.(6) His ribs must have been tearing at their cumbrous shell.(7) I shall hope that a more rigorous, if more cumbrous , mode of expression will always be readily available.(8) In the Middle Ages the cumbrous but powerful crossbow was widely used in continental Europe.(9) Still, they will not be blocking intersections or chanting beneath cumbrous papier-mache puppets.(10) Under the cumbrous heading u2018Possible Engagements Are to be Regarded as Real Ones Because of their Consequencesu2019, Clausewitz explained further what he meant by this u2018priority of engagementsu2019.(11) Early European settlers adopted the process, but found less cumbrous methods.(12) He replied that the proxy bill was not unconstitutional, though its mode of operation was u2018inconvenient, cumbrous and liable to fraud and abuse.u2019(13) It was anti-futuristic, so cumbrous and mechanical that even the acronym seemed dated.(14) It was his role to give the villains their orders for the night, haggle over the prices and keep a candle burning in the dissecting room waiting for the cumbrous sacks to arrive.(15) Against such a view as his, it can be argued that touring something as cumbrous and labor-intensive as opera is an expensive business.(16) At the heart of this strange embedded narrative lies a cumbrous allegory.