UNGAINLY


Meaning of UNGAINLY in English

adjective

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Dinosaurs were huge ungainly animals with tiny brains.

I felt old, fat, and ungainly .

She was old, fat and ungainly , and had to struggle to get to her feet.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

He had been an attractive youth, tall, rather ungainly , with a thatch of black hair.

It was ungainly , and slow, but the method worked.

It was four feet tall, ungainly and untuned, and Clarisa was no musician.

They were, in a word, ungainly .

What a relief I thought, that that ungainly thing was no longer needed by me.

Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary.      Дополнительный английский словарь Longman DOCE5.