unwielding

English

Adjective

unwielding (comparative more unwielding, superlative most unwielding)

1. unwieldy.
   • 1855, Charles Wilkins Webber, Tales of the Southern Border, page 297:

     But the deeds of valour which he described, and of which he was the modest hero, were always only just surpassed by the incomprehensible feats of personal agility which accompanied them — incomprehensible when we looked upon the fat, unwielding personalities of the panting boaster.

   • 1896, Alexander Mackenzie, History of the Frasers of Lovat:

     He had the luck to produce a cursed little chaise, where Lord Lovat was in a manner buried alive under the unwielding bulk of this enormous porpoise.

   • 1908, Illustrated World ... - Volume 9, page 146:

     Instead of the heavy, unwielding implement formerly used, entailing very unpleasant laborious work, there is now an iron table, the top of which is magnetized.

   • 1967, United States. Congress. Senate, Hearings - Volume 8, page 337:

     The point raised by minority counsel was perhaps a germane one and it might be well to consider in the form of a separate bill lest it become too confused or unwielding with the points concerned in the other areas.

   • 2001, Dorothy Garlock, Wild Sweet Wilderness:

     His thoughts were an unwielding jumble in his mind.