Cumbrously

adv. [f. prec. + -LY².] In a cumbrous, troublesome or burdensome manner: see the adj.

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1401. Pol. Poems (Rolls), II. 104. Multipliyng of so many freris, whiche encresen combrouseli.

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1548. Udall, etc. Erasm. Par., Pref. 19. To be coumbreously entangled as it were.

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1823. Dom. Mann. Romans, 111. The tire was not unfrequently of brass;… they were cumbrously heavy.

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1875. Whitney, Life Lang., x. 180. Rejecting both these titles as cumbrously long.

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