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
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
And yet Heller’s third film after two nearly perfect early outings, the acerbic high-school comedy Diary of a Teenage Girl and the rueful true-crime drama Can You Ever Forgive Me?, comes by its ungainliness honestly.
From Slate ● Nov. 19, 2019
There are creatures which are the embodiment of grace; and others whose huge ungainliness is like that of a shape in a nightmare.
From The Holy Earth by L. H. (Liberty Hyde) Bailey
