cumbrous
adjective
cumbrousness
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a word derived from
cumbrous.
Example Sentences
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The style is perfectly suited to the purpose, having got rid of almost all vestiges of the cumbrousness of the older tongue without losing its picturesque quaintness.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" by Various
Out trooped other menials of perhaps less age and greater dignity, quickly gathering from the equipage the chests and bags and other articles of less cumbrousness.
From Mistress Penwick by Dutton Payne
This method may be cumbrous, but cumbrousness is a far less evil than uncertainty.
From Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 by Sir Francis Darwin
Whatever lightens hospitality of its cumbrousness makes for civilization, which is really more compatible with a refined frugality than with an unbridled luxury.
From Imaginary Interviews by William Dean Howells
To turn to the scenic details which form a considerable element of this historical picture, I have already hinted that they are not without a taint of cumbrousness and pedantry.
From Mathilde Blind by George Eliot
