She herself began to make clumsy attempts to entice him.

I asked in what had to be one of the clumsiest attempts at a save ever made.

It was a clumsy attempt, but the best you could come up with under pressure.

It looked like a child's first clumsy attempt to depict the human face in wax.

"That wasn't bad," Austin said after their first clumsy attempt.

Three weeks after I received the weapon, a clumsy attempt was made to break into my house in the middle of the night.

His clumsy attempt to distract her attention was all the warning she needed.

It would have been a clumsy attempt at best.

This is a clumsy and absurd attempt to make war on poor people.

Once again, clumsy attempts to do good end up harming communities we want to help.