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
Inefficiencies, broken handoffs, communication gaps and uncoordinated processes stall activation and put undue burdens on businesses to figure out how to get a product up and running.
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Alfred Kahn, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
These videos often spotlight patchwork tattoos, a style that’s become increasingly trendy in the past five years and consists of clusters of uncoordinated flash tattoos rather than a cohesive sleeve.
—Alyssa Goldberg, USA Today, 2 June 2025
Passionflower can also cause side effects like drowsiness, confusion, and uncoordinated movement in some people.39
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—Emmanuella Ogbonna, Health, 19 May 2025
This is because the implementation of these measures is insufficient and uncoordinated and because there are not nearly enough concrete consequences—including sanctions or prosecutions—for illicit-gold traffickers and the refiners that purchase from them.
—Sasha Lezhnev, Foreign Affairs, 19 May 2025
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Alfred Kahn, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
These videos often spotlight patchwork tattoos, a style that’s become increasingly trendy in the past five years and consists of clusters of uncoordinated flash tattoos rather than a cohesive sleeve.
—Alyssa Goldberg, USA Today, 2 June 2025
Passionflower can also cause side effects like drowsiness, confusion, and uncoordinated movement in some people.39
11.
—Emmanuella Ogbonna, Health, 19 May 2025
This is because the implementation of these measures is insufficient and uncoordinated and because there are not nearly enough concrete consequences—including sanctions or prosecutions—for illicit-gold traffickers and the refiners that purchase from them.
—Sasha Lezhnev, Foreign Affairs, 19 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for uncoordinated
Adjective
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And Hank’s own clumsy attempts at hypermasculine child-rearing often come from his father, Cotton (Toby Huss).—
Daniel Dockery,
Vulture,
7 July 2025
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Gone are are the days of clumsy imagery and texts and fake sign-in pages that can be detected in an instant.—
Zak Doffman,
Forbes.com,
3 July 2025
Adjective
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The house was a little awkward and needed some work, including in the living room, which had a mix of original wood flooring and vinyl.—
Thomas Fuller,
New York Times,
24 July 2025
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Yet that has led to an awkward UX for those who lean into portrait mode.—
Ewan Spence,
Forbes.com,
22 July 2025
Adjective
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So, what will moral and democratic revival look like when the ground beneath is unsteady?—
F. Willis Johnson,
Twin Cities,
10 July 2025
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Facial wrinkles, gray hairs, an unsteady walk: these all signal older age.—
Alice Park,
Time,
9 July 2025
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“Uncoordinated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/uncoordinated. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.
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