cumbersome

Second, the dismissal process for ineffective teachers is so cumbersome and costly that it rarely works as it should.

The cabman whips up the horse and, turning round, begins swearing at the heavy and cumbersome luggage.

A blocking press is now, in consequence of the size of many of the blocks, a large and cumbersome machine.

We may shed our cumbersome pedestrian habits, but we take up in the air with us our petty souls.

Its movements are said to be very clumsy and erratic, as if its self-imposed burden was too cumbersome for its strength.

She would treat the cumbersome object as she would a piece of old plaster.