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Ungainliness   Listen
Ungainliness

noun
1.
The carriage of someone whose movements and posture are extremely ungainly and inelegant.  Synonym: gawkiness.






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"Ungainliness" Quotes from Famous Books



... them—the Curator of our famous museum—lacks comeliness of figure, though at moments he can be very impressive. We can therefore recognize him at a distance by means of a certain ungainliness of stride sometimes seen in a man wholly given over to intellectual pursuits. But when he turns and you get a glimpse of his face, you experience at once the scope of mind and charm of spirit which make his countenance a marked one in the metropolis. A little gray about the temples, a ...
— The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow • Anna Katharine Green



Words linked to "Ungainliness" :   ungainly, awkwardness, gawkiness, clumsiness



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