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  • adjective Not streamlined.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ streamlined

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Examples

  • She started to ask what LTVs were, then remembered: lunar transfer vehicles, the ungainly, unstreamlined carriers that plied regular schedules between the space stations orbiting Earth and the lunar outposts.

    Moonwar Bova, Ben, 1932- 1997

  • This field pulled the ship through Space Plus, for all that it was ungainly, unstreamlined, and resembled an angular metallic squid.

    Nor Crystal Tears Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1982

  • This field pulled the ship through Space Plus, for all that it was ungainly, unstreamlined, and resembled an angular metallic squid.

    Nor Crystal Tears Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1982

  • Discovery, like all vehicles intended for deep space penetration, was too fragile and unstreamlined ever to enter an atmosphere, or to defy the full gravitational field of any planet.

    2001 A Space Odyssey Clarke, Arthur C. 1968

  • And no wonder, he's much prettier than his co-star Jane Wyman (looking rather puffy and unstreamlined), and no one, no one looks better in a crisply ironed collared shirt or silhouetted against hospital curtains or scrubbing down shirtless before going into the ER than Hudson does here.

    Bright Lights After Dark 2009

  • Ask any manufacturer who has reverted to his old-fashioned labels and unstreamlined logo and he will tell you how profits have soared.

    Home | Mail Online 2009

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