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Ungainly and crude, the lowly shopping cart has remained unaltered for seventy years, making up in practicality what it lacks in elegance.
Makeshift Metropolis Witold Rybczynski 2010
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Ungainly and crude, the lowly shopping cart has remained unaltered for seventy years, making up in practicality what it lacks in elegance.
Makeshift Metropolis Witold Rybczynski 2010
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Ungainly, crook-nosed, with babyfat cheeks, waiting impatiently for her next birthday, the bubblehead operation, and a trip across the river.
Scott Westerfeld: Uglies Quartet Scott Westerfeld 2010
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Ungainly, crook-nosed, with baby-fat cheeks, and an impatient expression—impatient for her next birthday, the bubblehead operation, and a trip across the river.
Scott Westerfeld: Uglies Quartet Scott Westerfeld 2010
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Ungainly and crude, the lowly shopping cart has remained unaltered for seventy years, making up in practicality what it lacks in elegance.
Makeshift Metropolis Witold Rybczynski 2010
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Ungainly terms like "decremental" are cropping up even in the prose of the master stylists, like Pembroke (mining and basic materials, BNP Paribas), whose writing is now flabby and pocked with suspicious usage.
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Ungainly, provokable, I batted at the wisecracks and taunts of my peers as at a swarm of wasps.
LIGHT FINGERS 2009
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Ungainly, monstrous and unable to navigate, or so it seemed.
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Ungainly, crook-nosed, with baby-fat cheeks, and an impatient expression—impatient for her next birthday, the bubblehead operation, and a trip across the river.
SPECIALS SCOTT WESTERFELD 2006
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Ungainly, crook-nosed, with baby-fat cheeks, and an impatient expression—impatient for her next birthday, the bubblehead operation, and a trip across the river.
SPECIALS SCOTT WESTERFELD 2006
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