cumbrous in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

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cumbrous in the PONS Dictionary

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In spite of a cumbrous and affected style, he is a vivid narrator; his character sketches are admirable as summaries of current estimates.
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By this simple method, he, so to speak, set the sponge without any of the cumbrous processes connected with fermentation.
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Only the cumbrous bumblebee, and the strange aboriginal black bee, apparently survive to do the pollinating duty as uncollected sugars ferment in their sacs.
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This cumbrous and costly apparatus kept the field to itself for some time.
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How, for example, did he come up with that admittedly cumbrous title?
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Sometimes it feels true that a drawing, with all its cumbrous literality, can ruin a delicately achieved effect.
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Even in their most modern incarnations, trams may be grindingly inflexible and rather cumbrous.
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He made improvements to the astrolabe by introducing brass instruments in place of cumbrous wooden ones.
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It disdains the artificial, the unnatural, the ostentatious, the cumbrous ornaments of style, the old conventions of verse composition.
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I must admit, though, it is somewhat of a cumbrous task to bank all hopes on individuals who do not keep their promises.
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