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11 words match “UNGAINLY”

UNGAINLY a. 3 definitions
Not gainly; not expert or dexterous; clumsy; awkward; uncouth; as, an ungainly strut in walking. His ungainly figure and eccentric manners. Macaulay.
CLOWNISH a.
Of or resembling a clown, or characteristic of a clown; ungainly; awkward. "Clownish hands." Spenser. "Clownish mimic." Prior. -- Clown"ish*ly, adv.
LUMMOX n.
A fat, ungainly, stupid person; an awkward bungler. [Law.]
SLOUCH n.
A hanging down of the head; a drooping attitude; a limp appearance; an ungainly, clownish gait; a sidewise depression or hanging down, as of a hat brim.
SLOUCHING a.
Hanging down at the side; limp; drooping; without firmness or shapeliness; moving in an ungainly manner.
SPLAY a.
Displayed; spread out; turned outward; hence, flat; ungainly; as, splay shoulders. Sonwthing splay, something blunt-edged, unhandy, and infelicitous. M. Arnold.
UNGAIN a.
Ungainly; clumsy; awkward; also, troublesome; inconvenient. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Beau. & Pl.
UNGAINLINESS n.
The state or quality of being ungainly; awkwardness.
UNLICKED a.
Not licked; hence, not properly formed; ungainly. Cf. To lick into shape, under Lick, v. Shak.
WEEDY a.
Scraggy; ill-shaped; ungainly; -- said of colts or horses, and also of persons. [Colloq.]
WOODEN a.
Clumsy; awkward; ungainly; stiff; spiritless. When a bold man is out of countenance, he makes a very wooden figure on it. Collier. His singing was, I confess, a little wooden. G. MacDonald. Wooden spoon. (a) (Cambridge University, Eng.) The last junior optime who takes a university degree, -- denoting one who is only f…