“They are heavy, cumbersome and awkward, made from the most basic materials.”

“They come in very large and cumbersome boxes, which we would not want to have carried from the ship up to our store and then to the place from which they are to be forwarded to their destination.”

“The command economy relied upon a vast and cumbersome bureaucracy in which there were few incentives for efficiency and innovation.”

“I am glad John Winthorp and John Carver did not bring cumbrous and cruel iron branks to America.”

“Her treatise has the usual cumbrous apparatus of scholarly citation, though I did wonder about her methods of research.”

“Still, they will not be blocking intersections or chanting beneath cumbrous papier-mache puppets.”