ungainliness

Example Sentences

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Giving comedian Ayo Edebiri ample screen time in the balance helps to mitigate some of the subplot's situational ungainliness; besides, this subplot adds some perspective to Emily's personal conundrum.

From Salon • Jan. 9, 2021

Nevertheless, its pig-in-a-python ungainliness contributes to the fascination.

From Washington Post • Sep. 8, 2020

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

From Slate • Nov. 19, 2019

Sweaters like Babaà’s cardigan, popular on Instagram, seem pure in their ungainliness.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 4, 2019

The purists may, accordingly, dismiss their apprehensions, especially as the neoterists have, clearly, a keener horror of phraseological ungainliness than themselves.

From The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. by Osmun, Thomas Embly