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ungainliness

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Spite of its size and ungainliness, it is very nimble, and can accomplish a leap of upwards of six feet in height.

Though of unshapely body and awkward gait, his ungainliness intensified by his long hair, the goat is a most skillful climber.

He was a dark man, with a skin of oily sallowness; thickset, with something of the slow ungainliness of a toad.

A creature with bat-like wings flapped with a monstrous ungainliness between the outer posts of the verandah.

There are creatures which are the embodiment of grace; and others whose huge ungainliness is like that of a shape in a nightmare.

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On this page you'll find 40 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to ungainliness, such as: ignorance, ineptitude, amateurishness, artlessness, boorishness, and coarseness.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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