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Significados de ungainly en inglés

Lacking grace in movement or posture.

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Uso de ungainly en inglés
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What further need have we of proof positive on this ungainly matter?
The Irish Times
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They pulled vigorously, backstroking; the ungainly raft plowed across the hardening current.
Genellan: planetfall
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That the great ungainly transport still floated was something of a miracle.
Stonewielder
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The duties of a hostess she performed in a stiff ungainly way.
John Caldigate
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The ploughman comes up from the country with a long ungainly stride.
Mushrooms on the Moor
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With quick, ungainly strides the boy brought himself to the upturned machine.
The Cow Puncher
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His keepers released him and Seregil slumped forward in an ungainly heap.
Shadows Return
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He lisped-hewas very plain and homely-looking :andexceedingly awkward and ungainly.
Vanity Fair
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In public life, on the contrary, he was shy, ungainly, and embarrassed.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1
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The ungainly log raft floated between boulders in the eddying river waters.
Genellan: planetfall
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Lysandra rode her ungainly way towards her and dismounted with little elegance.
Imperatrix
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Holding it ungainly in his arms, he plucked out a few notes.
The Secret Eleanor
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He makes it worse by a shrill, unpleasant voice and ungainly gestures.
A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life
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An American armored car, as ungainly as a dinosaur, turned a corner.
The forever war
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The ponderous, ungainly engine was just moving, and that was about all.
Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons: Wesel, Sennelager, Klinge...
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Arthur said to himself that he hated Candish for his ungainly person.
The Philistines
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