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Ungainliness

Ungainliness \Un*gain"li*ness\, n. The state or quality of being ungainly; awkwardness.

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ungainliness

n. The state of being ungainly.

WordNet
ungainliness

n. the carriage of someone whose movements and posture are extremely ungainly and inelegant [syn: gawkiness]

Usage examples of "ungainliness".

Yet they did not entirely mimic the motions of an organic lifeform, being given to occasional ungainliness and a tendency to lumber.

Somehow, after all her ungainliness, she managed something in her expression.

There was none of the ungainliness one might have expected, though the absence of a curving hull was disconcerting.

Anjou for his ungainliness, which was all the greater for his look of settled discontent and resentment.

There was none of the ungainliness of a cripple-and what in hell would a cripple be doing up here?

George Carter was conscious of a feeling of ungainliness as he stood there in his tight-sleeved, close-necked shirt of Ganymedan linen.

In spite of the apparent clumsiness of his build and the ungainliness of his movements it was extraordinary how swiftly and how quietly he moved, a shadow could scarcely have made less sound than this man did as he melted through the darkness and a swift runner would have difficulty in keeping pace with him.

In one hand he held the ugly-looking jemmy he had taken from the burglar, and the new clothes he had donned, ill-fitting and soiled, served to accentuate the ungainliness of his form.

She was conscious the whole time of her ungainliness and of the fact that she was neither one thing nor the other.