torpe
clumsy ; gauche ; dull ; heavy-handed ; gawky ; ham-handed ; ham-fisted ; clotted ; awkward ; lumbering ; oafish.
Such solutions after repeated application cause the catalog to become a clumsy, inefficient tool, and serve only to compound future problems.
But influence of the gauche Aldine greek of the 1490s, and then of the superb reinterpretations of Garamont (1540s) and Granjon (1560s), was irresistible.
Then there are those children made to think themselves failures because of the hammer-blow terms like dull, backward, retarded, underprivileged, disadvantaged, handicapped, less able, slow, rejected, remedial, reluctant, disturbed.
The often heavy-handed paternalism of Soviet children's literature is being challenged and children are being entrusted with real situations and real problems rather than the idealistic, rose-coloured version of reality previously thought suitable for them.
His zany humor, gawky production, and sexual exhibitionism have grown in this new film into a confident, ironic account of a world in which it pays to be rich and beautiful.
The League of Nations was a comically ham-handed debacle which collapsed in complete failure, disgracing all who were associated with it.
They must ponder how not only to prevent such tragedies in future, but also to avoid worsening them through ham-fisted intervention.
Although he occasionally lapses into a sort of clotted prose, his book is a valuable study of McLuhan's cultural and geographical context.
Access is impaired by archaic, awkward, or simply strange headings that most normal persons would never look for on their first try.
He is presented in the movie as a somewhat comical character, with a lumbering but pleasant clumsiness as he walks through doors and into furniture.
Naturally, like a good mother, she always reproved us for bad manners, or for being unkind to other children, or selfish, or affected, or oafish, or sulky.
de una manera torpe
awkwardly
cumbrously
However, the rules of 1908 and 1949 included no such provision, save in the case of anonymous works where this was accomplished awkwardly and indirectly by the use of added entries under the original title.
In order to avoid cumbrously constructed sentences, the term 'library' henceforth will be used in this introduction to encompass 'libraries,' 'media centers,' and 'information systems'.
ser torpe con las manos
be all (fingers and) thumbs
The first time I did it I was all fingers and thumbs, but practice brings the reward of ease.
ser torpe para + Infinitivo
be deficient in + Gerundio
It is a well-known fact that they're grossly deficient in identifiying talented minority children, and, for that matter, girls.
ser un poco torpe
be slow on the uptake
be a button short
have + a button missing
First off, I can be mighty slow on the uptake about things like this, because I usually pay little heed to the conventions that dictate you.
He is a button short, if you don't mind my saying so.
Payley is retarded and described by Ruth as having a 'button missing'.
torpes, los [Expresión usualmente acompañada del artículo]
dull-witted, the
It is mistaken to think this inarticulateness is confined to the ill-educated or dull-witted.
