ungainly

ungainly englannista suomeksi

1. kömpelö, raskasliikkeinen

2. kankea

ungainly englanniksi

1. Clumsy; lacking grace.

2. (quote-book)

3. (quote-journal)&93; presented himself to the rulers of that society, they were amazed not more by his ungainly figure and eccentric manners than by the quantity of extensive and curious information which he had picked up during many months of desultory, but not unprofitable study.

4. (quote-journal)

5. (quote-journal), 15 London|Waterloo Place|month=April|year=1873|volume=XXVII|issue=160|page=411|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=hKJOAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA411|oclc=6611603|passage=A string of huge woolly camels, most powerful and ungainliest of their kind, swaying along beneath their loads as they thrust out their shaggy snaky necks in an aimless fashion from side to side, and frightening our nags in a desperate scramble to get out of the way up the mountain slope; (..)

6. 1962, Weismiller|Edward Ronald Weismiller, chapter XI, in ''The Serpent Sleeping'', New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam's Sons|Putnam, (OCLC); republished London; Portland, Or.: Cass|Frank Cass Publishers, 1998, (ISBN), page 169:

His body, though thin, looked oversized and ungainly, his limbs poorly knit together; he appeared to conquer his tendency to awkwardness by making only the smallest, most deliberate of movements.

7. Difficult to move or to manage; unwieldy.

8. Unsuitable; unprofitable.

9. An ungainly person or thing.

10. (quote-book)|year=1854|volume=II|page=151|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=1S0lAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA151|oclc=48539436|passage=I was completely subdued:—hungry, cold, wet, and chilled, outside and inside, with the weather, and the place, and the people,—but that's a ''bull'', for I saw nobody except two ungainly country footmen, and a fat groom of the chambers who took me to my room, and assigned me one of the ungainlies as valet.

11. In an ungainly or unbecoming manner; improperly; undeservedly, unduly; unsuitably.