In cross-examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.    From LearnThat.org.  [Louis Nizer (1902 - 1994) American attorney, writer]

A gawky lad with long ungainly legs.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Cowell called her performance "ungainly" and "gimmicky" and he hated her outfit.    From Wordnik.com.  [TV Envy] Reference

Consumer Reports said the Tahoe's handling was "ungainly" and its stopping distances too long.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference

Simone: Dania "doesn't love" it; Nigel calls it "ungainly" and lacking sensuality; Tyra thinks she could be stronger.    From Wordnik.com.  [All - Digital Spy - Entertainment and Media News] Reference

There was a look of ungainly clumsiness about him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Operation Haystack] Reference

They're stuck in a particularly ungainly sink of puberty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mtv: A Salute To America's Most Wasted] Reference

I grew tall early, and therefore seemed ungainly to myself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Money, Religion And Sex] Reference

It had a bone-jarring ride, slow steering, and ungainly handling.    From Wordnik.com.  [The worst road trip cars ever, part 2] Reference

But as I say, it's kind of a unwieldy, ungainly instrument to play.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ralph Towner's Guitar Journey] Reference

Benton's film is ungainly and overstuffed -- not to mention miscast.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Different Kind Of Skin Flick] Reference

She was loud in her sincere admiration of the ungainly pile where the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heart of Arethusa] Reference

Philipse, but the lady saw nothing attractive in the tall, ungainly countryman.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New York and Albany Post Road From Kings Bridge to "The Ferry at Crawlier, over against Albany," Being an Account of a Jaunt on Foot Made at Sundry Convenient Times between May and November, Nineteen Hundred and Five] Reference

It was seen, for the most part, lavishing blandishments on a somewhat ungainly puppy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Antony Gray,—Gardener] Reference

And verbally, this first song implies that "Dear Science" will be labored and ungainly.    From Wordnik.com.  [TV On The Radio: Complicated 'Science'] Reference

Then the harsh croaks of two herons rising from the sedges and looking so ungainly in flight.    From Wordnik.com.  [Country diary: Loch Ruthven] Reference

He really does look too ungainly to field in the ring and I'm the last person to be heightist.    From Wordnik.com.  [England v Pakistan – as it happened!] Reference

Some ungainly creature, unskilled in surmounting such an obstacle as a perpendicular brick wall.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Beetle] Reference

  With each ungainly step I distanced myself from the reason I was here and my spirit rejoiced for it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ambrosia] Reference

The back seat fits two large adults, plus one of those ungainly convertible baby car seats, comfortably.    From Wordnik.com.  [Road Test: Mitsubishi Galant] Reference

The rough engine didn't like climbing the Pocono Mountains, and the ungainly chassis didn't like curves.    From Wordnik.com.  [The worst road trip cars ever, part 1] Reference

Perhaps a more awkward and ungainly animal has not been domesticated, but certainly none is more useful.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference

That requires ungainly software tools to "magnify" portions of the page in order to actually read the words.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Practical Futurist: The Rebirth Of E-Publishing] Reference

Of course, the great difficulty of airships has been their ungainly size and the difficulty of housing them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Opportunities in Aviation] Reference

Woshinsky crouched next to him like a wheel bug, his eyes bulging, drinking in every word, an ungainly sight.    From Wordnik.com.  [At a Welsh Wedding] Reference

Her speed, however, made up for her ungainly movements, and for some time she outdistanced the lion by a long way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rataplan, a rogue elephant; and other stories] Reference

Thankfully for this action man, they've padded the stairs, so even my ungainly wilt down them doesn't hurt that much.    From Wordnik.com.  [The fall guy: a day at stuntman school] Reference

I sent a concentrated blast at the head, as the figure awkwardly tottered toward me, ungainly in the multi-gee field.    From Wordnik.com.  [Greylorn] Reference

How surprised must the fishes be to see this ungainly visitor from another sphere speeding his way amid their schools!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7] Reference

(Gates says that the ungainly temporary moniker is intentionally awkward, to ensure that something better will replace it.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Microsoft's Crapshoot] Reference

But the sewing machine on the table is so superbly painted in all its black ungainly force that it upstages everything else.    From Wordnik.com.  [Frederick Cayley Robinson: Acts of Mercy] Reference

Then I felt it begin to move, in wobbling fashion, with awkward, ungainly gait, stopping every now and then, as if for rest.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Beetle] Reference

It's the more mysterious, difficult role, and Thompson, finding Carrington's ungainly grace, makes her poignantly believable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Love, Bloomsbury Style] Reference

What happened is POM Wonderful, the company that single handedly transformed the ungainly pomegranate into a stylish libation.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Winning Equation] Reference

Why then may not the ungainly hind-legs have been shortened by human preference independently of the inherited effects of disuse?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Are the Effects of Use and Disuse Inherited? An Examination of the View Held by Spencer and Darwin] Reference

Now, he was plump and ungainly, his body ransomed to the needs of the villagers as a symbol of the village's agricultural prosperity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Excerpt from Pompeii ii] Reference

Freddy, once so lithe and graceful and pretty, had been transformed into an ungainly being, all length, without breadth or thickness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Doctor's Daughter] Reference

At this moment, amidst a clatter that was indescribable, the Griffin, looking a most ungainly object, came gallumping into the open space.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tale of Lal A Fantasy] Reference