ungainliness

Example Sentences

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John’s halting efforts to march his ungainliness into a chaotic world mimic those of anyone who grew accustomed to ordered solitude or preferred it in the first place.

From Salon • Mar. 26, 2025

He uses the word “representation” here — the representation of ordinary American ungainliness.

From New York Times • Dec. 7, 2021

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

From Washington Post • Aug. 25, 2021

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

There is the same exaggeration, the same petulant ill-nature, the same obscurity of phrase and ungainliness of verse, and the same general insincerity.

From A History of Elizabethan Literature by Saintsbury, George