ungainliness

Example Sentences

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Newborns of any species tend to be delightful, and the piglets — in their tininess and charming ungainliness — prove natural-born scene stealers.

From New York Times • Dec. 10, 2020

Nevertheless, its pig-in-a-python ungainliness contributes to the fascination.

From Washington Post • Sep. 8, 2020

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

Frozen 2 doesn’t have its forebear’s ungainliness; in many ways, it’s more efficiently engineered.

From Slate • Nov. 19, 2019

They must neither hide themselves nor be hidden, be spared seeing how much other people enjoy from which they are debarred, or grow over-conscious of their own ungainliness.

From The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance by Malet, Lucas