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Frowningly, cumbrously, he boards the Caliban and settles in his cabin.

From Slate • Jan. 15, 2013

Ohio-born Dr. May, 49, a fellow of Manhattan's cumbrously named William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis and Psychology, got his Ph.D. from Columbia with a now classic thesis, The Meaning of Anxiety.

From Time Magazine Archive

With characteristic awkwardness the Cabinet decreed last week a verbose and complex measure cumbrously entitled "The First Ordinance for the execution of the Law for the Preparation of the Organic Reorganization of the German Economy."

From Time Magazine Archive

Before it acquired its two incredible cylinders, it was cumbrously propelled by 500 sq. yds. of canvas.

From Time Magazine Archive

A huge picture of an Atlantic Liner, the gift of a Steamship Company, leaned cumbrously against a wall.

From Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People by Zangwill, Israel