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Meanings of ungainly in inglês

Lacking grace in movement or posture.

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Usage of ungainly in inglês
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What further need have we of proof positive on this ungainly matter?
The Irish Times
2
They pulled vigorously, backstroking; the ungainly raft plowed across the hardening current.
Genellan: planetfall
3
That the great ungainly transport still floated was something of a miracle.
Stonewielder
4
The duties of a hostess she performed in a stiff ungainly way.
John Caldigate
5
The ploughman comes up from the country with a long ungainly stride.
Mushrooms on the Moor
6
With quick, ungainly strides the boy brought himself to the upturned machine.
The Cow Puncher
7
His keepers released him and Seregil slumped forward in an ungainly heap.
Shadows Return
8
He lisped-hewas very plain and homely-looking :andexceedingly awkward and ungainly.
Vanity Fair
9
In public life, on the contrary, he was shy, ungainly, and embarrassed.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1
10
The ungainly log raft floated between boulders in the eddying river waters.
Genellan: planetfall
11
Lysandra rode her ungainly way towards her and dismounted with little elegance.
Imperatrix
12
Holding it ungainly in his arms, he plucked out a few notes.
The Secret Eleanor
13
He makes it worse by a shrill, unpleasant voice and ungainly gestures.
A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life
14
An American armored car, as ungainly as a dinosaur, turned a corner.
The forever war
15
The ponderous, ungainly engine was just moving, and that was about all.
Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons: Wesel, Sennelager, Klinge...
16
Arthur said to himself that he hated Candish for his ungainly person.
The Philistines
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