ungainliness

IPA: ʌngˈeɪnɫinʌs

Examples of "ungainliness" in Sentences

Hashim's unique footwork is combined with ungainliness of style but fearsome speed of shot.
Martha rose like a whale cresting the surface of the water, seemingly ignorant of her ninth-month ungainliness.
Red Smith, who watched Dean become a demigod, wrote that Dizzy remained his entire life a “big, gangling gawk, appealing in his ungainliness.”
Her mix of poise and, when she plays, slight girlish ungainliness, made for a compelling, occasionally wayward performance, at once fierce and lyrical in its intensity.
The plot's hilariously twisty, stealth elements aren't as dreadful as they could be, but there is a slight ungainliness to the action that makes some boss fights a painful chore.
In their excesses and frequent ungainliness, their refusal to submit to the expectations of ordinary discourse, works of art and literature manifest an a-temporal power that compels succeeding viewers and readers to consider them anew (sometimes to enlist them in ideological skirmishes), to regard them as representations informed by their origins in historical circumstance but not bound by them, however culturally complicit they ulimately must be.