as in clumsy
having or showing an inability to move in a graceful manner
my swimming instructor had never seen anyone so uncoordinated—in or out of the water
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Recent Examples of uncoordinated
For years, poor governance has doomed the Chicago region to an inefficient, uncoordinated transit system that fails to adequately serve its riders.
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Joe Ferguson, Chicago Tribune, 9 May 2025
Social-media companies try to stem cartels’ activity on their sites, but their efforts have been sporadic and uncoordinated.
—Antón Barba-Kay, The Atlantic, 26 Apr. 2025
Yet compared with the first Trump administration, when the threat to American democracy was not as stark, the resistance today is limited and uncoordinated.
—Laura Gamboa, Foreign Affairs, 31 Mar. 2025
These acts of vandalism appear to be random and uncoordinated, and so far nobody has been injured.
—Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 25 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for uncoordinated
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These transitions, between past and present, are sometimes clumsy but sometimes genuinely sweet, as with an old letter that near-simultaneously is dictated and written, received and read, and finally rediscovered (and only partially understood) in the 21st century.—
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Wildlife officials helped remove a black bear found hanging out in the kitchen of a Kentucky home after an impressive, yet clumsy break-in, photos show.—
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From awkward silences to unresolved tensions, most of us would rather scroll, text, or disappear than risk a moment of raw, honest connection.—
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The feelings of being sweaty, red-faced and kind of awkward is very familiar to me.—
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It’s maintained an idiosyncratic spirit all along, combining references from across rock history—a Bob Dylan harmonica line here, a Cars synth line there—with lyrics that unspool in unsteady, careening cadences.—
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Not only that, but he was being fed an unsteady diet of cockroaches.—
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“Uncoordinated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/uncoordinated. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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