ungainly
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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
If their first step toward the Super Bowl is going to be this ungainly, how much longer can they stay upright?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2026
Everyone agrees it looks ungainly, but it's the least worst solution in the circumstances.
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2025
Sam Quinones celebrates this ungainly instrument and its players in “The Perfect Tuba,” a delightfully offbeat book with unexpectedly profound overtones.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2025
Uncle Mbaezi lay facedown in an ungainly twist, legs splayed.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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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