ungainly

Mae Mobley is plump and ungainly; she looks charming in a diaper but not in the sort of frilly dresses her mother favors.

Like other SRL inventions, this ungainly beast was sort-of-steered by a radio-control unit designed for model cars.

It was an ungainly -looking vehicle, mounted on bicycle wheels driven by a rubber belt that connected the engine to the rear wheels.

'More of the problems have to do with the fact that China is a large, ungainly, rapidly moving animal that's hard to measure. '

Your partner may be a floundering dancer, but my partner is so ungainly. She makes an elephant look like a ballerina.

The thick, ungainly boots can cut off a woman's legs in a most unflattering way - resembling two stuffed animals gnawing at the feet.

His assets were learning, memory and a mastery of language; his ungainly figure and his stiffness of gesture were disadvantages.

Through the crowd of ungainly, shabbily dressed actors, Sibyl Vane moved like a creature from a finer world.

Your judgment and sensitivity sharpen as you are forced to face, word by deadly word, the ill-written ungainly passages.

Moving house does make one feel ungainly and I simply don't want to be observed in this exposed state.

However, if each component of the running action is carefully analyzed and developed, even the most ungainly runners can find improvement.

Not so long ago, this ungainly partnership was faring poorly.

You're just the ungainly outcome of a childish experiment with genetic Tinker Toys.

Heavy and ungainly out of water, these reptiles are supremely well adapted swimmers.

Inter-governmental bodies could expand, sometimes to ungainly and unwieldy proportions, but could not shrink to more manageable numbers.

They are sandy yellow in colour, covered with crystalline flecks, and are folded into large ungainly incoherent heaps.

The poems rhyme too determinedly , ungainly as pairs tied together in a three- legged race .

While the story sounds impressive, he seems ungainly for such exploits, possibly a bit more hapless than debonair.

As Defense Secretary under George H. W. Bush, Cheney tried four times to kill the Marine Corps's ungainly tilt-rotor aircraft.

I thought him terribly ungainly when he danced.

Anteaters , so ungainly they appear put together with parts left over from the Creation, bustle about.

Vernon zhong: fine, fine, fine. Put on your clothes quickly. How ungainly!

"If you want to know whether Nick's an ungainly dancer, check out my bruised feet, " said Nora.

Comical in their ungainly gait, nunas are flightless fowl native to the swamps of Naboo.

What this grim, ungainly, gaunt, and ominous bird of yore.

Clumsy and awkward; ungainly.

The tall man wobbled along ungainly.

He walked in long ungainly strides.

On land the turtle is ungainly , but in the water it is very agil.

On land the turtle is ungainly, but in the water it is very agile.

If you are naturally athletic, you will do better in the sports arena, then the person who is a bit ungainly.

Much I marveled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly,

an ungainly attempt to retrieve the fallen serviette

The ungainly walk of a goose [gorilla]

What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt, and ominous bird of yore

an ungainly body incapable of agile movement