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ungainliness



NOUN
clumsiness
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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

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

From Washington Post Aug. 25, 2021

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

From Slate Nov. 19, 2019

Though many U.S.-set series shoot in Canada, few do so with the touching ungainliness of this one.

From The New Yorker Jun. 19, 2018

The ungainliness in walking may be added to by flat-foot.

From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Alexander Miles




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