Sample Sentences for
ungainly
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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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    She ran from him, but her body seemed thick and ungainly.†  (source)
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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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    Even in the curtained gloom the ungainly bulk beside me was unmistakable.†  (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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    The ungainly thumping of her heartbeats evened, shaping out time.†  (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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    Might the ungainly package be mistaken for garbage and tossed in the incinerator?†  (source)
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    The ungainly boy lived for reaching the legal age for legal slaughter.†  (source)
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    The hammer was ungainly, badly balanced, and heavier than a rifle.†  (source)
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    Her feet tangled in the hem of her robe and she fell to the carpet with an ungainly thump.†  (source)
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