How to pronounce“ungainly”in English
feeling that the mysterious creatures were secretly laughing at him he may have been quite right in thinking so for he was an odd-looking personage with an
ungainly figure and long iron gray hair that touched his stooping shoulders and a full soft Brown beard beard which he had worn ever since he was 20 in fact he
had looked at 20 very much as he looked at 60 lacking a little of the graininess when he reached bright River there was no sign of any train he
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Definitions of “ungainly”
Clumsy; lacking grace.
“They being a very ſilly ſort of People, had no other way to ſhew their Spight and Reſentment, than by making Mouths at the Dutch as they paſſed by, and ſometimes Spitting upon them. To break them of that ungainly Cuſtom, we made a reſolution amongſt us, never to let any paſs by that did ſo, whether Old or Young, Man or Woman, without giving them a good Box on the Ear.”
Gangling
An ungainly person or thing.
“I was completely subdued:—hungry, cold, wet, and chilled, outside and inside, with the weather, and the place, and the people,—but that's a bull, for I saw nobody except two ungainly country footmen, and a fat groom of the chambers who took me to my room, and assigned me one of the ungainlies as valet.”
In an ungainly or unbecoming manner; improperly; undeservedly, unduly; unsuitably.
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