(a.) Not gainly; not expert or dexterous; clumsy; awkward; uncouth; as, an ungainly strut in walking.
(a.) Unsuitable; unprofitable.
(adv.) In an ungainly manner.
Example Sentences:
(1) Apart from its brightly striped beak, the bird is well-known for its ungainly walk and longevity.
(2) The problem is it’s an ugly, ungainly shared experience.
(3) The ungainly Chinook (in nature, either a kind of wind or a Native American people) is a particular favourite.
(4) This ungainly hulk was miraculously granted permission by Southwark council's planning committee, who described it as "dynamic" and "dramatic", no doubt wooed by the architect's claims that the form was "inspired by the literary heritage" of the borough.
(5) The ungainly spectacle of a US state desperately seeking a supply of pharmaceutical in order to kill a man provides a snapshot of the dire condition of the death penalty in many of the 32 states that still practice it.
(6) It was often ungainly, and Klinsmann would probably prefer decent defensive anticipation to decent recovery, but for the first 45 Turkey went no closer than a low Caner Erkin shot in the 11th minute that hit the side netting after the USA failed to clear their lines properly from a corner.
(7) Womens Wear Daily 's correspondent was more specific, and less charitable – she saw "an ugly, ungainly, overgrown boy with thick glasses, and so horribly shy he couldn't take his eyes off the floor".
(8) The Volkswagen emissions scandal explained Read more To British eyes, the way Germany companies are structured looks a bit ungainly.
(9) It will no doubt be objected that the sequence of the big machine becomes tedious, and that in construction the film is somewhat ungainly.
(10) 7.59pm GMT 14 min: Arsenal can be grateful for Alaba’s honesty: he could easily have gone down just now as Sagna made an ungainly challenge on him in the box but instead the Austrian stayed on his feet and hammered a low cross into the six-yard area, where Arsenal scooped it clear.
(11) Rawls was not an especially gifted stylist, and A Theory Of Justice is a long and ungainly book.
(12) Guy de Maupassant, the short-story writer, called it a "giant ungainly skeleton ... which just peters out into a ridiculous thin shape like a factory chimney".
(13) You write: "Unclothed, truth can be vulnerable, ungainly, shocking.
(14) Blackadder Your brain would make a grain of sand look large and ungainly and the part of you that can't be mentioned I am reliably informed by women around the court wouldn't be worth mentioning even if it could be.
(15) It is suggested that, due to the importance of this syndrome, it may be an appropriate time to reconsider the use of "mucosal disease virus" to replace the ungainly name "BVDV".
Weedy
Definition:
(superl.) Of or pertaining to weeds; consisting of weeds.
(superl.) Abounding with weeds; as, weedy grounds; a weedy garden; weedy corn.
(superl.) Scraggy; ill-shaped; ungainly; -- said of colts or horses, and also of persons.
(a.) Dressed in weeds, or mourning garments.
Example Sentences:
(1) I set off down the still familiar regular path between the regularly spaced trees, finding weedy elder bushes bearing leaves.
(2) This locus is, however, highly polymorphic in weedy C. berlandieri populations of western North America.
(3) It's so easy, what with advergames , weedy regulation, ferocious lobbyists, monopolies, "regulatory capture", and with sugar and chips being so delicious, comforting, cheap, and all for sale seconds from a school gate near you.
(4) It's full of energy but perhaps could have done without the addition of a weedy brass section.
(5) Ed Miliband claimed that he and David were simply too weedy to fight.
(6) The government claims that tolls will only be charged by roads' new owners for new capacity, but that sounds distinctly like one of those weedy assurances given by politicians that, once yesterday's lunacy has become today's accepted practice, is swiftly forgotten (to these ears, it has a similar ring to all those early New Labour claims about strict limits on private involvement in the NHS, or what the likes of Nick Clegg have said about profit-making schools).
(7) You wait for the punchline on Nizlopi's JCB Song before realising, to your horror, that the weedy singing and naive lyric is not a Hoxton parody of outsider art but is meant to signify sincerity.
(8) Estate agents suggest sellers should try to: • Keep up external appearances: "To be greeted by a weedy drive and a facade covered in peeling paint is a death knell.
(9) There are no nasty oil-marks on the beach, nor weedy sewage outfalls.
(10) As a child he was weedy and introspective, a condition he cured by taking up boxing and rowing at Westminster School.
(11) For every weedy Peter Parker or Tony Stark sans Iron Man armour, there are armies of demigods looking ripped in latex and leather, many of them played by people called Chris.
(12) Facing a swaggering Conservative leadership that increasingly reveals a nasty bullying streak, Labour is tending to give off the anxious vibes of the weedy kid in the playground, eyes down, hands in its pockets, too ready for flight instead of fight.
(13) Livers from 4,501 deer mice (Peromyscus maniculatus) collected from a weedy habitat in northeastern California during 48 consecutive monthly samplings were examined microscopically for Taenia taeniaeformis larva.
(14) I'm not sure you'd want me to fight a pack of Daily Mail journalists to defend your honour, because I'm weedy and no good at sport, but I do a good line in creative swearing at sexist scumbags.
(15) I see Labour MPs and shadow ministers hold their heads in their hands, asking why strong popular policies emerge watered down, weedy and weak.
(16) The relatively weedy intellectual decided to attend the local gym.
(17) Its followup dramatises a school reunion, which gives weedy Brian and childhood sweetheart Jessica one last chance to get together.
(18) They stay home with their colonic irrigationists, and their weedy macrobiotic diets and their personal trainers and their status anxiety.
(19) Isozymes of leucine aminopeptidase (LAP) in leaf tissue of the cultivated chenopods (Chenopodium quinoa and C. nuttalliae) and their sympatric weedy relatives (C. hircinum and C. berlandieri) can be electrophoretically resolved into a sum total of five anodally migrating bands.