ungainly
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For generations, Americans have marked Thanksgiving by wrestling with the perfect way to prepare and serve turkey, a bird known for its ungainly size, dry texture and lack of distinguishing flavor.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 24, 2025
Everyone agrees it looks ungainly, but it's the least worst solution in the circumstances.
From BBC • Oct. 28, 2025
In a bid to purge subjectivity, the definitions were written in a style that was minutely descriptive but might charitably be called ungainly.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 14, 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
The locomotive was black, an ungainly contraption led by the triangular snout of the cowcatcher, though there would be few animals where this engine was headed.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
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