unwielding

comparative more unwielding · superlative most unwielding

1. unwieldy.

   His thoughts were an unwielding jumble in his mind.

   2001, Dorothy Garlock, Wild Sweet Wilderness

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   But the deeds of valour which he described, and of which he was the modest hero, were always only just surpassed by the incomprehensible feats of personal agility which accompanied them — incomprehensible when we looked upon the fat, unwielding personalities of the panting boaster.

   1855, Charles Wilkins Webber, Tales of the Southern Border, page 297

   He had the luck to produce a cursed little chaise, where Lord Lovat was in a manner buried alive under the unwielding bulk of this enormous porpoise.

   1896, Alexander Mackenzie, History of the Frasers of Lovat

   Instead of the heavy, unwielding implement formerly used, entailing very unpleasant laborious work, there is now an iron table, the top of which is magnetized.

   1908, Illustrated World ... - Volume 9, page 146

   The point raised by minority counsel was perhaps a germane one and it might be well to consider in the form of a separate bill lest it become too confused or unwielding with the points concerned in the other areas.

   1967, United States. Congress. Senate, Hearings - Volume 8, page 337