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.†
p. 186.5 *ungainly = lacking grace in movement or appearance; or difficult to handle or manage
- 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.†
p. 240.4
- You know he is as ungainly within as without.†
p. 331.4
Definition:
lacking grace in movement or appearance; or difficult to handle or manage -- especially because of shape