ungainly
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Trundling up an ungainly lift to reach a second-story balcony seems like Woody Allen’s hapless bank robber trying to tunnel his way into vaults in “Small Time Crooks.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 19, 2025
In a bid to purge subjectivity, the definitions were written in a style that was minutely descriptive but might charitably be called ungainly.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 14, 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
Sample review: "An ungainly mess, submerged in mayhem, occasionally surfacing for cliches."
From BBC • Aug. 9, 2025
Her ungainly iron ram, fashioned after the likeness of the fish from which she took her name, parted the surface of the river before her.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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