lumpish in Finnish

lumpish in Finnish

What does "lumpish" mean?

1. adj Shaped roughly like a lump, with no clear or neat form.
2. adj Clumsy and awkward in the way someone looks or moves.
   "Direction of the principal characters is effective, but the crowd scenes tend to the lumpish, with a paradoxically static feel, despite the overt busyness of it all."
3. adj Slow and dull in thought or action, and lacking energy.
   "He felt horribly ashamed. He would have liked to throw himself on his knees beside her, put his arms round her, and ask her pardon. But he could do nothing of the kind; the scene had left him lumpish and awkward."
4. adj Describes a sound that is dull and heavy.

lumpish in a sentence

• Direction of the principal characters is effective, but the crowd scenes tend to the lumpish, with a paradoxically static feel, despite the overt busyness of it all.
• But the play's snatches of racy prose do not offset its stretches of lumpish playwriting. Too often both untidy and oldfashioned, it closed after four performances.
• He felt horribly ashamed. He would have liked to throw himself on his knees beside her, put his arms round her, and ask her pardon. But he could do nothing of the kind; the scene had left him lumpish and awkward.

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