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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 cum·ber·some a.
 1. Burdensome or hindering, as a weight or drag; embarrassing; vexatious; cumbrous.
    To perform a cumbersome obedience.   --Sir. P. Sidney.
 2. Not easily managed; as, a cumbersome contrivance or machine.
    He holds them in utter contempt, as lumbering, cumbersome, circuitous.   --I. Taylor.
 -- Cum*ber*some*ly, adv. -- Cum*ber*some*ness,n.
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