ungainliness
Example Sentences
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John’s halting efforts to march his ungainliness into a chaotic world mimic those of anyone who grew accustomed to ordered solitude or preferred it in the first place.
From Salon ● Mar. 26, 2025
The addition of songs, however beguiling, thus winds up emphasizing the play’s ungainliness by adding another unintegrated element and stretching the run time.
From New York Times ● Jul. 27, 2023
Whatever the psychological ungainliness of living as a multicultural character, Rakotondrainy visualizes it gracefully.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 25, 2021
Frozen 2 doesn’t have its forebear’s ungainliness; in many ways, it’s more efficiently engineered.
From Slate ● Nov. 19, 2019
Night came down and as her ungainliness was not thrust upon him as it was in the broad glare of day, he felt less difficulty in professing a deep attachment for her.
From Si Klegg, Book 3 (of 6) Si And Shorty Meet Mr. Rosenbaum, The Spy, Who Relates His Adventures by John McElroy
