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Meanings of ungainly way in English

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Usage of ungainly way in English
1
The duties of a hostess she performed in a stiff ungainly way.
John Caldigate
2
Lysandra rode her ungainly way towards her and dismounted with little elegance.
Imperatrix
3
He'd walked into the restaurant in an ungainly way, his feet turned out.
Carte Blanche
4
Instead we tell ourselves this is just the ungainly way in which they fly.
Independent.ie
5
But he lunges at the ball in an ungainly way.
The Guardian
6
Furious with rage, Brunie rose up, and in her stiff, ungainly way went to meet them.
Rataplan, a Rogue Elephant; and Other Stories
7
In this ungainly way we approach a small creek from whose mud banks knots of small children watch us curiously.
Full Circle
8
For lack of anything else it resembled some sort of monster of the deep making its ungainly way to the land.
Assail
9
He saw the halfling leave, making its ungainly way from the balcony of the master bedroom to the roof, then taking to its overburdened wings.
Touching darkness
10
81 are placed so far apart that they increase in an ungainly way the breadth of the back at the waist-line.
What Dress Makes of Us
11
"And yet when we look at poor dear Ethel, and her queer ungainly ways, and think of her building a church!"
The Daisy Chain, or Aspirations
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