Adjective : an ungainly child; an ungainly prose style. From Dictionary.com.
She would get up early so that he needn't be offended by her slowness and ungainliness. From Wordnik.com. [She Closed Her Eyes] Reference
The exigencies of the beadwork, however, lends a certain stiffness and ungainliness to the figures. From Wordnik.com. [Chats on Old Lace and Needlework] Reference
Hunkapa Aub was not graceful, but his expansive stride compensated for his occasional ungainliness. From Wordnik.com. [A Triumph of Souls]
He saw the ungainliness of his father's bulk crashing through the asbestos material of the shed roof. From Wordnik.com. [Cal]
The lame man, for all his ungainliness, could move silently in his scuffed felt shoes on the floor tiles. From Wordnik.com. [A River So Long] Reference
Heaven sometimes hedges a rare character about with ungainliness and odium, as the burr that protects the fruit. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860] Reference
There was none of the ungainliness one might have expected, though the absence of a curving hull was disconcerting. From Wordnik.com. [The Deluge Drivers]
He seemed always to converse with effort; he took a seat with stiff ungainliness; he walked with a stumbling or sprawling gait. From Wordnik.com. [New Grub Street] Reference
Despite his ungainliness he is capped for rugby, promoted to the school cricket team as a fast bowler, and appointed the unlikely hero of the hour. From Wordnik.com. [Absolute Friends]
That even moderate dancing demands immoderate abilities, is attested by the exhibition of human ungainliness disfiguring all the court balls of Europe. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844] Reference
Aesthetic insulation: the surrounding vacuum of ungainliness or ugliness that preserves the perfect aesthetic heat or perfect chill of the artwork itself. From Wordnik.com. [The aesthetic vacuum flask] Reference
There was beauty in it, even in its ungainliness, and as I thought this I had a fleeting sensation of ages of darkness and loneliness and profound, urgent need. From Wordnik.com. [The Unusual Genitals Party] Reference
Confronted with this spectacle of ungainliness, her contempt abated in favor of mere disinterest — she no longer wanted to cause him harm, only that he should leave. From Wordnik.com. [The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters]
There was something monumental in his ungainliness. From Wordnik.com. [Moon and Sixpence] Reference
The ungainliness in walking may be added to by flat-foot. From Wordnik.com. [Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.] Reference
To the ungainliness of her figure her mode of dressing not. From Wordnik.com. [The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer — Complete] Reference
His ungainliness gave him enough of the air of his simile to set. From Wordnik.com. [The Mystery of Edwin Drood] Reference
These Egyptian things give one an idea of inexpressible ungainliness. From Wordnik.com. [Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2] Reference
Thereby the ungainliness, which marked the distribution of the cast in. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays] Reference
Doctor Jespersen admits that our tongue has a certain masculine ungainliness. From Wordnik.com. [Confessions of a Book-Lover] Reference
His ungainliness disappeared, as was ever the case when he forgot himself in excitement. From Wordnik.com. [From Jest to Earnest] Reference
His ungainliness gave him enough of the air of his simile to set Rosa off laughing heartily. From Wordnik.com. [The Mystery of Edwin Drood] Reference
He was dressed in a plain suit of black, which but imperfectly hid the natural ungainliness of his form. From Wordnik.com. [The Aid-De-Camp; A Romance of the War] Reference
His ungainliness had utterly vanished; and Lottie acknowledged that she had never seen a nobler-looking man. From Wordnik.com. [From Jest to Earnest] Reference
A creature with bat-like wings flapped with a monstrous ungainliness between the outer posts of the verandah. From Wordnik.com. [The Lamp in the Desert] Reference
He was a dark man, with a skin of oily sallowness; thickset, with something of the slow ungainliness of a toad. From Wordnik.com. ['Me--Smith'] Reference
He was conscious of his ungainliness and reddened a little as he fumbled on the inside and outside of his coat. From Wordnik.com. [Amos Kilbright; His Adscititious Experiences] Reference
"No portraits that I have ever seen," writes one, "do justice to the awkwardness and ungainliness of his figure.". From Wordnik.com. [Abraham Lincoln] Reference
The King was plain even to ungainliness -- a strange thing for the son of one of the most beautiful women that ever lived. From Wordnik.com. [It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot] Reference
Except perhaps for his height and ungainliness no one could have recognized Andrew Lackaday in the painted clown Petit Patou. From Wordnik.com. [The Mountebank] Reference
He was much below the middle height, but his large head, which seemed to hang loosely on his body, gave him an odd ungainliness. From Wordnik.com. [Of Human Bondage] Reference
Yet, despite their "primitive" ungainliness, Houseago's figures are very much aware of their presence in the twenty-first century. From Wordnik.com. [Daily Serving] Reference
The house of the McKinstrys rose, or rather stretched, itself before him, in all the lazy ungainliness of Southwestern architecture. From Wordnik.com. [Cressy] Reference
The prevailing method of giving railway and street names, besides its ungainliness, is often misleading and contrary to common sense. From Wordnik.com. [Hyphens.] Reference
As he opened the door Dr. Knott's heavy person showed in all its ungainliness against the brightness of sunlight flooding Dickie's room. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance] Reference
Now the ungainliness of his deformity was hidden, and his height was greater than that of his companion, obliging her to look up at him. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance] Reference
A bridge still celebrated as a triumph of architectural ungainliness. From Wordnik.com. [In the Footprints of the Padres] Reference
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