clumsily
advEtymology From clumsy + -ly.
1
In a clumsy manner or way; without care or finesse, often hurriedly or awkwardly.
- But, bowing with sketchily joined hands, they smiled their way clumsily out, down to the darkness.1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 514:
- Synonyms
- carelessly, sloppily