Both Uses of
ungainly
in
Ulysses, by James Joyce
- She follows her mother with ungainly steps, a mare leading her fillyfoal.†
Chpt 14 *ungainly = lacking grace in movement or appearance; or difficult to handle or manage
- Virag reaches the door in two ungainly stilthops, his tail cocked, and deftly claps sideways on the wall a pusyellow flybill, butting it with his head.†
Chpt 15
Definition:
lacking grace in movement or appearance; or difficult to handle or manage -- especially because of shape