ungainliness
- n the carriage of someone whose movements and posture are extremely ungainly and inelegant
- It's a delicate enterprise, complicated by meteorological challenges and the ungainliness of a plane this big and light.
- Immediately after its hair-raising test flight, the pilot, Shorty Schroder, went to Ford and for several hours heatedly described its ungainliness and capricious lift .
- But ungainliness hardly matters when a box of old snapshots and mementos is to be sorted out.