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Definition

lacking grace in movement or appearance; or difficult to handle or manage — especially because of shape

The ungainly, tilt-rotor aircraft is shockingly expensive.

ungainly = lacking grace in movement or appearance

The cello, a rather ungainly instrument.

ungainly = difficult to handle or manage

She had just had a growth spurt and still looked a bit clumsy and ungainly.

ungainly = lacking grace in movement or appearance

It's ungainly compared to the other birds, but it can fly.

ungainly = lacking grace in movement

Baby giraffes look so ungainly.

ungainly = lacking grace in movement or appearance

On the mountain-top the parachute filled and moved; the figure slid, rose to its feet, spun, swayed down through a vastness of wet air and trod with ungainly feet the tops of the high trees; falling, still falling, it sank toward the beach and the boys rushed screaming into the darkness.
William Golding -- Lord of the Flies

ungainly = awkward (not graceful)

Ralph remembered the ungainly figure on a parachute.
William Golding -- Lord of the Flies

ungainly = awkwardly moving (not graceful)

He was ungainly and twisted.
David Almond -- Clay
Two years later, she moved to another one-a secure, if ungainly, building in an apartment complex in Southeast, about two miles northeast of Ballou.
Ron Suskind -- A Hope in the Unseen
A look of shock and surprise-the hunter hunted-my husband lifted off his feet in an ungainly and weightless manner.
Stephen King -- Rose Red
Even in the curtained gloom the ungainly bulk beside me was unmistakable.
Corrie ten Boom -- The Hiding Place
I'm just something very ungainly that you'vemarried.
Ernest Hemingway -- A Farewell to Arms
Its back was corrugated and ornamented with ungainly bosses, and a greenish incrustation blotched it here and there.
H.G. Wells -- The Time Machine
I had slid down the seat and slept the night through in an ungainly position.
Maya Angelou -- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
At that she flung her head high, spun on her ungainly legs and gallumphed back down the ridge apparently more indignant than afraid.
Farley Mowat -- Never Cry Wolf
Her legs were as big around as the stumps of trees, and she moved with an ungainly shuffle.
Ray Bradbury -- The Martian Chronicles
I know I am wild, and uncouth, and ungainly—
James Fenimore Cooper -- The Pathfinder
He was lank and ungainly but, even with his wooden peg, he moved as swiftly as a snake.
Margaret Mitchell -- Gone with the Wind
How surprised must the fishes be to see this ungainly visitor from another sphere speeding his way amid their schools!
Henry David Thoreau -- Walden
'At any rate,' observed Uriah, with a writhe of his ungainly person, 'we may keep the door shut.
Charles Dickens -- David Copperfield

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