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lacking grace in movement or appearance; or difficult to handle or manage — especially because of shape
- I was ungainly, awkward, a fat kid.Chapter 5 (5% in)
- He says he felt "uncomfortable" when he went for his interviews downtown, and of course he did: he was short and ungainly and Jewish and talked with the flat, nasal tones of his native Brooklyn, and you can imagine how he would have been perceived by some silver-haired patrician in the library.Chapter 5 (18% in)
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