Ungainly is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for UNGAINLY in dictionary:

VERB:
• In an ungainly manner.
ADVERB:
• clumsily
ADJECTIVE:
• clumsy, also UNGAIN
• (of a person or movement) awkward; clumsy
• lacking grace when moving
• Not gainly; not expert or dexterous; clumsy; awkward; uncouth; as, an ungainly strut in walking.
• Unsuitable; unprofitable.
• lacking grace in movement or posture
• difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape

Words related to UNGAINLY

ungainlier11 ungainliest12 ungainliness13

How to use UNGAINLY in a sentence

• He lay in an ungainly pose, his head had fallen from a cushion, and his face was dark with blood.
• For these he substituted the ungainly clothes of civilization, a pair of square-toed boots, a store suit, a white shirt.
• His great ungainly body dropped forward until his face was hid in his hands.
• It was a monstrous, ungainly looking creature, nearly the size of a small whale.
• The figure was very strange, being that of a tall, lean, ungainly man, dressed in a dingy suit, somewhat of a Spanish fashion, with a brown laced cloak, and faded red stockings.
• They were only creatures of the wild, an old cow moose, black and ungainly, and her long-legged, awkward calf.
• Be this as it may, Sir Thomas entered, and brought his ungainly person nearly to the centre of the room before he spoke.
• Ungainly beast, I can bleed you when and where I will.
• Behind the Prioress there followed a nun, tall also, but ungainly.
• With a violent effort of the will he mastered his fear and saluted correctly although in a grotesque and ungainly fashion.
• Guided by this premonition he started, at the age of fourteen, for Copenhagen, a tall, ugly, and ungainly lad, but resolved, somehow or other, to conquer fame and honor.
• While mentally fearful, timid, and hesitating, the individual finds himself, upon addressing a person, staring at him in the most ungainly manner.
• With a floundering of his ungainly body he brought the fish up on the bank of the stream.
• They give, it is true, character to the interior, but their effect is ungainly.
• It was difficult to realize that the ungainly, ignorant boy of a few years back, had become this nice-looking, graceful young gentleman.
• And he had another breastwork built on the third deck, above the cabins, so that he turned the flimsy little steamer into a very staunch, if somewhat ungainly, floating fort.
• Lincoln immediately began to pay court to her, but in an ungainly and morbid fashion.
• His hands were always in some ungainly attitude, and yet they were wonderful hands, strong and sensitive, the colour of ivory.
• I was doing my sixth length when I saw entering the baths the ungainly carcass of White with the graceful form of Doe hanging affectionately on his arm.
• The animal is of bulky proportions and somewhat ungainly movements.
• One who saw it could never again think of caribou as ungainly animals.
• His long ungainly figure, surmounted by a high-peaked hat, was seen cautiously stealing through the trenches.
• He knew that he was tall, ungainly, roughly clad, and ignorant.

Similar words containing GAIN without suffix ly and without prefix un

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