Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or character of being ungainly; ungainly appearance; clumsiness; awkwardness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state or quality of being ungainly; awkwardness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state of being
ungainly .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the carriage of someone whose movements and posture are extremely ungainly and inelegant
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Examples
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In their excesses and frequent ungainliness, their refusal to submit to the expectations of ordinary discourse, works of art and literature manifest an a-temporal power that compels succeeding viewers and readers to consider them anew (sometimes to enlist them in ideological skirmishes), to regard them as representations informed by their origins in historical circumstance but not bound by them, however culturally complicit they ulimately must be.
Art and Culture 2010
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Hashim's unique footwork is combined with ungainliness of style but fearsome speed of shot.
World champion Nick Matthew presses the case for squash | Frank Keating 2011
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Her mix of poise and, when she plays, slight girlish ungainliness, made for a compelling, occasionally wayward performance, at once fierce and lyrical in its intensity.
Eugene Onegin; London Philharmonic Orchestra, Janine Jansen/Vänskä – review 2011
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Martha rose like a whale cresting the surface of the water, seemingly ignorant of her ninth-month ungainliness.
ALONE With You Marisa Silver 2010
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Red Smith, who watched Dean become a demigod, wrote that Dizzy remained his entire life a “big, gangling gawk, appealing in his ungainliness.”
Satch, Dizzy & Rapid Robert Timothy M. Gay 2010
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The plot's hilariously twisty, stealth elements aren't as dreadful as they could be, but there is a slight ungainliness to the action that makes some boss fights a painful chore.
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Red Smith, who watched Dean become a demigod, wrote that Dizzy remained his entire life a “big, gangling gawk, appealing in his ungainliness.”
Satch, Dizzy & Rapid Robert Timothy M. Gay 2010
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Red Smith, who watched Dean become a demigod, wrote that Dizzy remained his entire life a “big, gangling gawk, appealing in his ungainliness.”
Satch, Dizzy & Rapid Robert Timothy M. Gay 2010
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Martha rose like a whale cresting the surface of the water, seemingly ignorant of her ninth-month ungainliness.
ALONE With You Marisa Silver 2010
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Red Smith, who watched Dean become a demigod, wrote that Dizzy remained his entire life a “big, gangling gawk, appealing in his ungainliness.”
Satch, Dizzy & Rapid Robert Timothy M. Gay 2010
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