Crossword-Solution: UNGAINLY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Ungainly | a. | Not gainly; not expert or dexterous; clumsy; awkward; uncouth; as, an ungainly strut in walking. |
| Ungainly | a. | Unsuitable; unprofitable. |
| Ungainly | adv. | In an ungainly manner. |
We have 29 clues for the answer “UNGAINLY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| lacking grace when moving | 1 answer |
| Unwieldy or awkward | 1 answer |
| Clumsy or bunglesome | 1 answer |
| Awkward-looking | 1 answer |
| bunglesome | 3 answers |
| AN UNWIELDY LARGENESS | 7 answers |
| BUMBLING ONE | 13 answers |
| lumpish | 13 answers |
| Lubberly | 13 answers |
| unhandsome | 16 answers |
| unlovely | 17 answers |
| Elephantine | 19 answers |
| lumbering | 22 answers |
| all thumbs | 23 answers |
| Maladroit | 28 answers |
| unpleasing | 30 answers |
| Clownish | 39 answers |
| cumbersome | 53 answers |
| Bumbling | 58 answers |
| Inelegant | 64 answers |
| Blameless | 64 answers |
| Gawky | 66 answers |
| Amateurish | 69 answers |
| graceless | 70 answers |
| unwieldy | 72 answers |
| Bungling | 73 answers |
| Clumsy | 91 answers |
| Frank | 92 answers |
| Awkward | 93 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEAER
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greedy person
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Sentences with UNGAINLY (5)
Can you imagine a crab as large as yonder table, with its many legs moving slowly and uncertainly, its big claws swaying, its long antennæ, like carters’ whips, waving and feeling, and its stalked eyes gleaming at you on either side of its metallic front? Its back was corrugated and ornamented with ungainly bosses, and a greenish incrustation blotched it here and there.
For an instant the brutes stood with stiffly erected ears, then they poured from the grove toward the river’s bank, covering the distance with great, ungainly leaps.
The author has considered it hardly worth his while, therefore, relentlessly to impale the story with its moral as with an iron rod,—or, rather, as by sticking a pin through a butterfly,—thus at once depriving it of life, and causing it to stiffen in an ungainly and unnatural attitude.
When they walked it was with a rolling, awkward motion, placing the knuckles of their closed hands upon the ground and swinging their ungainly bodies forward.
The next breaker rolled them over and over, but eventually they all succeeded in crawling to safety, and in a moment more their ungainly craft had been washed up beside them.
Quotes with UNGAINLY (3)
In the end, everyone came to the conclusion that however ungainly, however inefficient, however elliptical ASEAN's ways are, it's still better than not having an ASEAN. That is the genius of ASEAN foreign policy.
The early settlers amazed her--they had pluck, they led lives of sweaty drama. Theirs was a world of corsets and whipping posts and indentured servitude. People worked the land and died in ungainly ways. Modern life, in comparison, seemed a cinch.
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door — Only this, and nothing more." Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December, And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. Eagerly I wished the morrow…
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 10 times in crossword archives (1994–2021).