Meanings of ungainly creature in английском

He had always laughed at the lad, considering him a stupid, ungainly creature.

Some ungainly creature, unskilled in surmounting such an obstacle as a perpendicular brick wall.

An ungainly creature, with a big scar across one cheek.

Not far off, another huge and ungainly creature, similarly equipped and plastered with mud, was lazily swishing a tasselled tail.

What an ungainly creature he looks as we draw in nearer, all legs and clumsy head,- aregulargrasshopper on stilts!

It didn't work, because the EU is an ungainly creature, no match in a diplomatic duel for a skilled and determined adversary.

Taking our stand, we waited, watching with much interest the great ungainly creature as she kept nibbling the young grass and digging up roots.

Spring came, and going out to the back pasture one morning, Chad found a long-legged, ungainly creature stumbling awkwardly about his old mare- acolt

We think of a huge ungainly creature, slovenly of dress, addicted to tea, the author of a dictionary and the center of a tavern coterie.

What quaint, ungainly creatures they are!

Several times he passed flocks of puppies, large ungainly creatures that from space appeared to drift like clouds over the continent.

So he kept scudding along in the water, dodging from right to left, to avoid the ungainly creatures that wanted to eat him.

The ungainly creatures could get as big as a human hand and looked haphazardly assembled from equal parts tarantula, praying mantis, and squid.

"Did you ever see such an ungainly creature!"