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

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

Moments like that help me understand why “God Said This” received the Yale Drama Series Prize last year despite its ungainliness.

From New York Times • Jan. 30, 2019

He watched her every moment keenly, and soon found out that her awkwardness was the result of diffidence and restraint, not of native ungainliness.

From The Tree of Knowledge A Novel by Reynolds, Mrs. Baillie