What is "ungraceful"

Usage examples of "ungraceful".

To her, it was a strange and apparently pointless kind of spiderweb wrapping the town hall in its ungraceful strands.

I fell against the door in an ungraceful sprawl and saw Dave watching us.

He tried anyway and ended up sitting down on the bed with an ungraceful thump.

Doing his best to shatter the ungraceful weapon, he brought it down with all his strength.

Elsie herself, which struck him as being particularly ungraceful, and the old pity began to reawake the old love.

I sank my fist wrist deep in an abdomen, whipped an elbow up, up, through a fragile jawbone, slid to the side of a thrusting arm and took it, turning it, levering it, letting the body follow in an ungraceful arc.

But their ungraceful obesity displeased him, and they were immediately dismissed.

I had hoped to have announced this news in a less abrupt and ungraceful manner.

Here Mabel seated herself on a fragment of fallen rock to recover her breath and strength, while her companion, on whose sinews no personal exertion seemed to make any impression, stood at her side, leaning in his own and not ungraceful manner on his long rifle.

She turns and makes an ungraceful twist, half falling, grabbing the iron bars with both hands.

No breed of cats in its proper condition can by any stretch of the imagination be thought of as even slightly ungraceful -- a record against which must be pitted the depressing spectacle of impossibly flattened bulldogs, grotesquely elongated dachshunds, hideously shapeless and shaggy Airedales, and' the like.

The update ship roared ahead, an ungraceful projectile that accelerated even as it grazed Jupiter's tenuous atmosphere, a hostage to orbital mechanics.

He darted into the nearest unenergized wall, a tall, gaudy, ungraceful shape.