ungainliness

Example Sentences

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But a sourness in tone keeps the proceedings from achieving the series’ signature black wit, adding to the film’s ungainliness.

From Washington Post • Sep. 29, 2021

Newborns of any species tend to be delightful, and the piglets — in their tininess and charming ungainliness — prove natural-born scene stealers.

From New York Times • Dec. 10, 2020

This also means "Nora From Queens" has time to smooth out its relative ungainliness; all of its episodes are funny, but some are noticeably tighter than others.

From Salon • Jan. 22, 2020

Frozen 2 doesn’t have its forebear’s ungainliness; in many ways, it’s more efficiently engineered.

From Slate • Nov. 19, 2019

That even moderate dancing demands immoderate abilities, is attested by the exhibition of human ungainliness disfiguring all the court balls of Europe.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844 by Various