Sentence example with the word 'ungainly'

ungainly

all thumbs, boorish, careless, cumbersome, gawkish, ham-handed, inelegant, lubberly, oafish, stiff, unhandy

Definition adj. lacking grace in movement or posture

Last update: September 10, 2015


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He keeps an ungainly hairstyle.   [adjective]

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It took him a while, his movement hindered by the ungainly wooden splint strapped to his leg.   [adjective]

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At length the tall ungainly figure and ungracious visage of Ebenezer presented themselves.   [adjective]

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The person of this individual was to the last degree ungainly, without being in any particular manner deformed.   [adjective]

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Her figure and movements were ungainly and her complexion appeared unnaturally sallow against a dark grey frock.   [adjective]

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She follows her mother with ungainly steps, a mare leading her fillyfoal.   [adjective]

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Virag reaches the door in two ungainly stilthops, his tail cocked, and deftly claps sideways on the wall a pusyellow flybill, butting it with his head.   [adjective]

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"You know he is as ungainly within as without."   [adjective]

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