ungainliness

Example Sentences

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Whatever the psychological ungainliness of living as a multicultural character, Rakotondrainy visualizes it gracefully.

From Washington Post • Aug. 25, 2021

This also means "Nora From Queens" has time to smooth out its relative ungainliness; all of its episodes are funny, but some are noticeably tighter than others.

From Salon • Jan. 22, 2020

And yet Heller’s third film after two nearly perfect early outings, the acerbic high-school comedy Diary of a Teenage Girl and the rueful true-crime drama Can You Ever Forgive Me?, comes by its ungainliness honestly.

From Slate • Nov. 19, 2019

Sweaters like Babaà’s cardigan, popular on Instagram, seem pure in their ungainliness.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 4, 2019

Her regal fingers touch for the evil of ungainliness, and, behold, we are restored.

From Select Conversations with an Uncle (Now Extinct) And Two Other Reminiscences by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)