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Ungainly
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1. clumsy, clunky, gawky, ungainly, unwieldy
lacking grace in movement or posture
Example Sentences:'a gawky lad with long ungainly legs''clumsy fingers''what an ungainly creature a giraffe is''heaved his unwieldy figure out of his chair'
2. awkward, bunglesome, clumsy, ungainly
difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape
Example Sentences:'an awkward bundle to carry''a load of bunglesome paraphernalia''clumsy wooden shoes''the cello, a rather ungainly instrument for a girl'
WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.
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