wieldy
Americanadjective
adjective
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Origin of wieldy
Example Sentences
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The food has to be nutritional and wieldy and not spoil quickly.
From Golf Digest
The XS Max feels notably heavier and larger in my hands than its smaller sibling, but also surprisingly wieldy for such a big device.
Trout still singled, but the wieldy variation augured the difficulty the Angels faced all game against the tall, angular left-hander with vicious stuff.
From Los Angeles Times
For four seasons, Blackstone had chopped away at Marshall’s two-plus decades of baseball tribulation, elevating the Statesmen up the local ladder of contention with each home run clobbered by his wieldy bat.
From Washington Post
And there is the sense that her absence, coming in such close conjunction with the death of her peer Maya Angelou, leaves something less wieldy and in need of shoring up.
From The New Yorker
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