ungainliness
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
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
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
Moments like that help me understand why “God Said This” received the Yale Drama Series Prize last year despite its ungainliness.
From New York Times ● Jan. 30, 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 George Saintsbury
Random Word
Spin the wheel and learn a new word!
Get a word