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lumpily

  • a word derived from lumpy.
    lumpy
    adjective
    full of lumps.

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The adaptation squanders the both talents of Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey and the goodwill of fans by lumpily repackaging the plot.

From Economist Sep. 7, 2017

As such, you cannot help feeling a sort of humility around them: They may be slow and ungainly and lumpily fashioned, but they are, in their durability and unchangeability, perfect in a way we aren’t.

From New York Times May 17, 2017

Ashore it is a bore, awkwardly staged and lumpily written.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 20, 2015

There was no glazing, and the clay was lumpily fused.

From Time Magazine Archive

Dark and deep as the mud of the Nile, Set brooded lumpily through a mist of sandalwood incense—ninety-nine cents at Schmitt’s—over all kinds of mystic ceremonies, weird rites and wicked plots.

From "The Egypt Game" by Zilpha Keatley Snyder