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Meanings of most ungainly in English

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Usage of most ungainly in English
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Old mustard-face ran with the most ungainly action.
Shadows in Bronze
2
As marketers apply the sportiest names to the most ungainly machines, body style definitions are growing increasingly wooly.
Wired
3
The lip then appears drawn out beyond the perpendicular of the nose, and gives them a most ungainly aspect.
Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa
4
It required all their skill to accomplish this object, for the raft was a most ungainly thing to manage.
All Aboard; or, Life on the Lake / A Sequel to "The Boat Club"
5
They are in the last stages of dilapidation, and from without present the most ungainly spectacles to be witnessed in New York.
Lights and Shadows of New York Life / or, the Sights and Sensati...
6
Mountaineers should be intelligent, active, and hardy; but these men were a most ungainly crew, and Lavinia's theories got a sad blow.
Aunt Jo's Scrap Bag, Volume 2 / Shawl-Straps
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One had on a pair of duck trousers which were much too large for him, and stuck out in a most ungainly manner.
The Coral Island: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean
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Of all places that I know it is the most ungainly and most unsatisfactory;- IfearI must also say the most presumptuous in its pretensions.
North America — Volume 2
9
"Let us hope so," said Caroline, "for he has been saddled with the most ungainly name I have ever heard."
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