gauchement

Je l'ai fait plutôt gauchement, n'est-ce pas ?
Oh, I did that rather awkwardly, didn't I?
Nous devons vers gauchement.
We have to turn left.
La trace va gauchement vers.
The road pulls to the left.
Il nous semble que nous sommes mauvais, et agir gauchement, et généralement faire tout le mal.
It seems to us that we look bad, and act clumsily, and in general do everything wrong.
Nous devons vers gauchement.
Look to the left.
Les objectifs assignés à la Banque centrale européenne sont mal équilibrés et assez gauchement formulés.
The aims which are defined in the charter of the European Central Bank are one-sided and somewhat clumsily phrased.
La trace va gauchement vers.
The trail leads to the left.
Lorsque ces mammifères voulaient se déplacer, ils allaient par petits sauts dus à la contraction de leur corps, et ils s'aidaient assez gauchement de leur imparfaite nageoire, qui, chez le lamantin, leur congénère, forme un véritable avant-bras.
When these mammals wanted to relocate, they moved in little jumps made by contracting their bodies, clumsily helped by their imperfectly developed flippers, which, as with their manatee relatives, form actual forearms.
Lorsque ces mammifères voulaient se déplacer, ils allaient par petits sauts dus à la contraction de leur corps, et ils s’aidaient assez gauchement de leur imparfaite nageoire, qui, chez le lamantin, leur congénère, forme un véritable avant-bras.
When these mammals wanted to relocate, they moved in little jumps made by contracting their bodies, clumsily helped by their imperfectly developed flippers, which, as with their manatee relatives, form actual forearms.
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