Cumbersome

English is like a gated community; access is possible but cumbersome.

Government red tape has made the process very cumbersome and hard to understand.

It was cumbersome.

Systems in which the rules are based on usage, such as languages or customary law, are condemned to become absurd, cumbersome and contradictory, since every time a small error slips into one of their usages, it is integrated into the rules, by definition, for eternity. The more users are ignorant, the more systems degrade rapidly. English, poorly used by millions of people, natives or not, for centuries, is an example of the degradation of a system at terminal stage, no longer presenting any logic, neither in its syntax, nor its grammar, nor its vocabulary or its pronunciation. Similarly, with customary rights becoming too cumbersome and incomprehensible, the states which rely on them tend to switch to prescriptive law.

Our equipment is very cumbersome.

As a Filipino child, once I knew the fundamentals of Tagalog orthography, I could then spell any Tagalog word from just the sound. Learning English in tandem, I thought that it was cumbersome to be obliged to memorize the spelling of each word, as English spelling was not phonemic, unlike Tagalog.

This process is very cumbersome.

When I compare my Tagalog writing to my English writing, I think that the application of tenses in English is really cumbersome.

Transferring to the Keiyō Line from other lines at Tokyo Station is extremely cumbersome.

One can legally do business with the so-called “occupied territories” in the east, but smugglers circumvent cumbersome legal procedures and opt to deliver goods clandestinely.