ungainly
Example Sentences
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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.
They hold their arms out at right angles, fingers splayed, moving forward with ungainly frog-legged stomps.
From New York Times
A woman came in with an ungainly heavy bundle, which she dumped onto the counter.
From New York Times
Gamble and Huff executive produced “The Jacksons” and wrote five of its 10 songs, and it sounds like it — the music is a jauntier, somewhat ungainly version of the duo’s lushly orchestrated Philly soul sound.
From Los Angeles Times
The document had metastasized with each lockdown into an ever more ungainly monster.
From New York Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
