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

He uses the word “representation” here — the representation of ordinary American ungainliness.

From New York Times • Dec. 7, 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

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