ungainly

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At the Park Avenue Armory, Benjamin Millepied’s camera-assisted contemporary version of Prokofiev’s Shakespeare-inspired ballet makes an ungainly patchwork out of the classic tale.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 9, 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

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

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

The yews sprawled, yellowish and ungainly; the stone steps had the grimy, unswept look of a city institution.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen