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ungainly

[uhn-geyn-lee] / ʌnˈgeɪn li /




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At the Park Avenue Armory, Benjamin Millepied’s camera-assisted contemporary version of Prokofiev’s Shakespeare-inspired ballet makes an ungainly patchwork out of the classic tale.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 9, 2026

Trundling up an ungainly lift to reach a second-story balcony seems like Woody Allen’s hapless bank robber trying to tunnel his way into vaults in “Small Time Crooks.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 19, 2025

I’d collapse one into the other, building a loaded potato so ungainly it should have come with a warning sign.

From Salon • Sep. 16, 2025

It's exquisite, even allowing for the rather ungainly noses forced on this era of F1 cars by the regulations.

From BBC • Aug. 19, 2025

The Standard Model is not only ungainly but incomplete.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson




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