Ungainly

Alaska Sea Grant Marine Advisory Program Agent led this year’s session with assistance from two local biologists who helped handle the ungainly body.

Are we the last generation, have we burned so many planetary bridges, set askew so many systems, that at some point our blissful blue orb will still be here, but unwelcoming to ungainly swimmers like myself?

And if you’re Norvell, you don’t apologize for a rivalry win, however ungainly.

The cast of Renaissance characters is also large and somewhat ungainly, populated with outsize historical players that include Michelangelo, Savonarola, Raphael, Niccolò Machiavelli, Cesare Borgia, various popes, assorted Medicis and many more.

Ungainly and in many cases conceptually flawed, the helicopter cruisers nevertheless represented an important leap forward for naval technology.

As I’ve noted here before, that makes a salad ungainly to consume, especially if you’re like me and just want to shovel everything into your mouth at once.

The physical comedy of the dancers was ungainly and buffoonish, for the sake of the characters, but still managed to show grace from the ballet.

It was the sort of reactionary football that’s so anti-Neymar, an ungainly mow over the cow cordon to a luminescent leg-glance, counter-productive to himself and the team.

Suburban sprawl and "the ungainly mass of humanity" has Toronto drivers fuming as they sit stuck in traffic.

Around July of each year, these ungainly animals migrate north from the Serengeti plains in search of fresh pasture, and return to the south around October.

Many books printed in China use a mix of fonts, with vowels and tone marks rendered in a different font from the surrounding text, tending to give such pinyin texts a typographically ungainly appearance.

The Russian supply chains would be ungainly because--for defense--on their side of the border there were only a few sandy tracks rather than proper macadamized roads.

Throughout his lonely boyhood, the ungainly Lewis—tall, extremely thin, stricken with acne and somewhat pop-eyed—had trouble gaining friends and pined after various local girls.

To the untrained eye, this appears to be an ungainly throw.