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As a result, the hulking yet ungainly construct toppled back and crashed to the ground.
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What makes a runner’s movements seem beautiful is that they convey a sense of ease—maintaining that pace, you figure, must take less energy than a more awkward and ungainly runner would require.
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Commission industry chief Thierry Breton pointed to the ungainly sight of multiple charging cables.
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As ungainly as bison look, they can run at speeds of up to 30 miles an hour and jump a six-foot fence.
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Presently his blunt ungainly head rose within ten feet of them.
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Though ungainly in appearance and with no oratorical talent, he was witty and formidable in debate.
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It was a heavy ungainly looking object when finished, and it required much ingenuity on my part to launch it.
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Bob lay upon some sacks in an ungainly attitude, and the jolting had not broken his heavy sleep.
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Slowly rising from his seat was a figure as ungainly as the other had been elegant.
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One of them was tall and ungainly and had a strange swinging motion as he walked across the fields.
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SYNONYM OF THE DAY
OCTOBER 26, 1985
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capacitor

WORDS RELATED TO UNGAINLY

  • burdensome
  • clumsy
  • cumbersome
  • cumbrous
  • encumbering
  • gross
  • hefty
  • inconvenient
  • lumbering
  • massive
  • onerous
  • ponderous
  • uncontrollable
  • ungainly
  • unhandy
  • unmanageable
  • weighty
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