adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Dinosaurs were huge ungainly animals with tiny brains.
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I felt old, fat, and ungainly .
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She was old, fat and ungainly , and had to struggle to get to her feet.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He had been an attractive youth, tall, rather ungainly , with a thatch of black hair.
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It was ungainly , and slow, but the method worked.
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It was four feet tall, ungainly and untuned, and Clarisa was no musician.
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They were, in a word, ungainly .
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What a relief I thought, that that ungainly thing was no longer needed by me.