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 team recently published a paper on the results of studies using an earlier, more ungainly version of their wireless sensor.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

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

The locomotive was black, an ungainly contraption led by the triangular snout of the cowcatcher, though there would be few animals where this engine was headed.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead