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
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
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 Lucas Malet
