ungainly

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The team recently published a paper on the results of studies using an earlier, more ungainly version of their wireless sensor.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

Everyone agrees it looks ungainly, but it's the least worst solution in the circumstances.

From BBC • Oct. 28, 2025

Sam Quinones celebrates this ungainly instrument and its players in “The Perfect Tuba,” a delightfully offbeat book with unexpectedly profound overtones.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 22, 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

Her ungainly iron ram, fashioned after the likeness of the fish from which she took her name, parted the surface of the river before her.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin