ungainly
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Moreover, at the point where it should be winding down, it instead stacks up an ungainly pile of endings; I would have cut maybe 20 minutes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 2026
The new parody is lurching and ungainly, though: Stitching parts of various things together seems to come easier to mad scientists than filmmakers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 5, 2026
When her rival, Poot’s Thea, arrives underdressed, Hedda forces her into a hideous frock with fussy bows and an ungainly skirt.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2025
I’d collapse one into the other, building a loaded potato so ungainly it should have come with a warning sign.
From Salon ● Sep. 16, 2025
“You know he is as ungainly within as without. A deficient, ill-tempered, lowering, stupid fellow.”
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
It will be the rawest, gauntest, ungainliest brute that ever scared the motor-bicycles on the Northampton Road.
From The Research Magnificent by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
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