ungainliness
- a word derived from ungainly.
Example Sentences
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John’s halting efforts to march his ungainliness into a chaotic world mimic those of anyone who grew accustomed to ordered solitude or preferred it in the first place.
From Salon ● Mar. 26, 2025
Nevertheless, its pig-in-a-python ungainliness contributes to the fascination.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 8, 2020
Frozen 2 doesn’t have its forebear’s ungainliness; in many ways, it’s more efficiently engineered.
From Slate ● Nov. 19, 2019
Moments like that help me understand why “God Said This” received the Yale Drama Series Prize last year despite its ungainliness.
From New York Times ● Jan. 30, 2019
There was something about his ungainliness and his homely face which would have made anyone who simply passed him in the street remember him.
From The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln A Narrative And Descriptive Biography With Pen-Pictures And Personal Recollections By Those Who Knew Him by Browne, Francis F. (Francis Fisher)
