clumsy+rustic

  • 51device — 1 Device, contrivance, gadget, contraption mean something usually of a mechanical character which is invented as a means of doing a particular piece of work or of effecting a given end. Device is the most widely applicable of these terms; it may… …

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  • 52rude — 1 Rude, rough, crude, raw, callow, green, uncouth mean deficient in the qualities that make for finish or for perfection in development or in use. Rude, as applied to men and their minds, suggests a comparatively low state of culture or a dearth… …

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  • 53awkward — adj 1. unskillful, unhandy, inexpert, inefficient, inept, incapable, inapt; clumsy, lubberly, left handed, Inf. all thumbs; maladroit, bungling, blundering, bumbling, bunglesome, heavy handed. 2. uncouth, agrestic, rustic, gauche, backward;… …

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  • 54backwoods — n 1. hinterlands, wilds, wilderness, frontier, woods, bush, country, no man s land, Sl. the boondocks, Australian. outback, U.S. Inf. the sticks. adj 2.Also backwood sequestered, secluded, isolated, lonely, remote, removed, inaccessible,… …

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  • 55clodhopper — n 1. rustic, peasant, provincial, country cousin, countryman, hobnail; farmer, plowman, plowboy, chuff, son or tiller of the soil, swain, kern, gaffer, (in Egypt) fellah, (in Russia) muszhik or mujick, (in Spanish A merica and South western U.… …

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  • 56country — n 1. region, district, territory, tract of land, land, terrain; section, quarter, area, place; parts, neighborhood, Inf. neck of the woods. 2. nation, power, state, commonwealth, city state; kingdom, realm, royal domain or territory; union,… …

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  • 57countryman — n 1. native, indigene, native inhabitant or resident; compatriot, fellow citizen, fellow countryman or countrywoman. 2. rustic, yokel, country bumpkin, peasant, Inf. hayseed, Inf. hick, Sl. rube, (in the Southern U.S.) redneck, bogtrotter;… …

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  • 58crude — adj 1. raw, coarse, unrefined, unmilled, unground, unprepared, undressed, unprocessed; natural, original, pristine, untouched. 2. primitive, rudimentary, unformed, undeveloped, unevolved; sketchy, drawing board, outline. 3. faulty, flawed, sloppy …

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  • 59lumpish — adj 1. lumpy, knobby, cloddy, clodlike; heavy, ponderous, elephantine, lumbering; clumsy, Sl. klutzy, lubberly, loutish, oafish; bungling, awkward, ungainly, maladroit, gawky; unpolished, rough, boorish, churlish, peasantlike, rustic; coarse,… …

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  • 60maladroit — adj 1. unskillful, unskilled, inexpert, Fr. inhabile. inept, unhandy; unapt, unfit, unsuited, unqualified; incompetent, uncompetent, inefficient, Inf. no good. 2. awkward, clumsy, like a bull in a china shop, Sl. klutzy, bumbling, bungling, left… …

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