(a.) Not graceful; not marked with ease and dignity; deficient in beauty and elegance; inelegant; awkward; as, ungraceful manners; ungraceful speech.
Example Sentences:
(1) They are supposed to lead to ungracefulness, over-development, hard muscles, and so on.
(2) This type of fibrotic tissue in the subcutaneous areola layer often brings on irregularities and ungraceful waves on the skin surface.
(3) But China’s diplomats have faced previous accusations of ungraceful behaviour.
Unwieldy
Definition:
(a.) Not easily wielded or carried; unmanageable; bulky; ponderous.
Example Sentences:
(1) But he warned that the BBC’s in-house production department was an “unwieldy beast” and said it would have to adapt if it was going to compete head to head with independent producers.
(2) Critics describe it as unwieldy, unfocused and unlikely to achieve its aims – a sledgehammer to crack a nut.
(3) The shakeup comes after criticism that Ofsted’s current approach is debilitating for school leaders, while its unwieldy organisation has left it unable to spot damaging changes within schools involved in the Trojan horse affair, some of which Ofsted had judged to be outstanding.
(4) Its current crisis stems in part from it being too big, too unwieldy to control.
(5) Characterised by large, unwieldy, centralised organisations, the anti-war movement became complacent, overly reliant on rallies and petitions.
(6) The ultrasonic urologic probe is an unwieldy instrument for cardiac surgery, and we suggest the manufacture of a new probe for clinical use in our specialty.
(7) The results bring an end to an unwieldy four-year "grand coalition" between the CDU and the Social Democrats (SPD).
(8) Other milestones have already been reached: a draft text is in preparation , much slimmed down from previous unwieldy versions, and evidence has been produced that current pledges from rich countries to provide financial assistance to the developing world will reach required levels by 2020.
(9) Although that campaign had succeeded, its unwieldy federal model of multi-party cooperation was judged dysfunctional.
(10) Jeronimo said it would need to be priced close to its rivals, but the Apple brand would draw customers who either could not afford the larger iPad or considered it too unwieldy.
(11) The enormity of the denominator in contraceptive steroid usage is so unwieldy that mechanisms to measure accurately the difference in an extremely small numerator are still plaguing the epidemiologist, who at best can supply only estimates.
(12) Echoing fears among many MPs that Bank of England governor Sir Mervyn King and his successors will control an unwieldy empire of regulatory committees that could challenge the Treasury's democratic mandate, Barker criticised government plans to create a financial policy committee (FPC) alongside the Bank's monetary policy committee (MPC), which sets interest rates.
(13) Last Thursday the CLP shut down an inquiry into the past two decades of political donations in the NT, as well as the nature of the Foundation 51 organisation – alleged to be a CLP slush fund – claiming it would be “unwieldy” and overly costly for the territory.
(14) Like many lymphocyte-monocyte products, this activity has been difficult to purify because of its low abundance in activated leukocyte cultures and the unwieldy bioassay required to detect biological activity.
(15) Sometimes he overcomplicates his work, to a point where the result is unwieldy.
(16) At the level of first contact, a primary health care centre, information management is an unwieldy task, therefore health information systems are reported to be inadequate and weak.
(17) The relevance of continuing education to clinical staff will be discussed in relation to the change in the content of nursing theory--from the unwieldy 'certainty-based' medical model, to a more flexible, thus perhaps 'uncertainty-based' medical model.
(18) While at the outset it can seem unwieldy, general consensus seems to be that it can work more effectively in challenging times.
(19) As Peter Kendall, then president of the National Farmers Union, put it to me at the time: while Clarke’s heart was clearly in the right place, “the company is an unwieldy tanker to turn around.
(20) The business minister Nick Boles said: “These changes will also simplify the law for businesses so they can spend less time worrying about unclear and unwieldy regulations.” Richard Lloyd, executive director of consumer group Which?, said: “Consumer law was crying out to be brought up to date to cope with the requirements and demands of today’s shoppers.