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The ungainly, tilt-rotor aircraft is shockingly expensive.ungainly = lacking grace in movement or appearance
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The cello, a rather ungainly instrument.ungainly = difficult to handle or manage
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She had just had a growth spurt and still looked a bit clumsy and ungainly.ungainly = lacking grace in movement or appearance
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It's ungainly compared to the other birds, but it can fly.ungainly = lacking grace in movement
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Baby giraffes look so ungainly.ungainly = lacking grace in movement or appearance
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Ralph remembered the ungainly figure on a parachute. (source)ungainly = awkwardly moving (not graceful)
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It would be such an ungainly way to die.† (source)ungainly = lacking grace in movement or appearance; or difficult to handle or manage
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She had always been petite, slender and well-proportioned, and the ungainliness of her body amazed and depressed her.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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A few were venturing onto the ridge but they did so cautiously, taking the same ungainly side steps Dr. Kerry had, tipping and swaying in the wind; everyone else was holding tightly to the stone parapet, knees bent, backs arched, as if unsure whether to walk or crawl.† (source)
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He wore them with the careless impertinence of utter ease in the unbecoming, and the very grotesqueness of his appearance became a declaration of his superiority, a superiority great enough to warrant disregard of so much ungainliness.† (source)
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Might the ungainly package be mistaken for garbage and tossed in the incinerator?† (source)
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He was much below the middle height, but his large head, which seemed to hang loosely on his body, gave him an odd ungainliness.† (source)
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She ran from him, but her body seemed thick and ungainly.† (source)
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The ungainly boy lived for reaching the legal age for legal slaughter.† (source)
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Six or seven times larger than even the most luxurious of office spaces, the knight's cabinet de travail resembled an ungainly hybrid of science laboratory, archival library, and indoor flea market.† (source)
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Mad-Eye Moody was doing an extremely ungainly two-step with Professor Sinistra, who was nervously avoiding his wooden leg.† (source)
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