All 3 Uses of
ungainly
in
Great Expectations
- His figure was a little ungainly, as in the days when my knuckles had taken such liberties with it, but it looked as if it would always be light and young.†
Chpt 22 *
- The great numbers on their backs, as if they were street doors; their coarse mangy ungainly outer surface, as if they were lower animals; their ironed legs, apologetically garlanded with pocket-handkerchiefs; and the way in which all present looked at them and kept from them; made them (as Herbert had said) a most disagreeable and degraded spectacle.†
Chpt 28
- You know he is as ungainly within as without.†
Chpt 38
Definition:
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(ungainly) lacking grace in movement or appearance; or difficult to handle or manage -- especially because of shape