Eksempler på ungainly

• Because opera is a collaborative genre, the mechanisms of its production and its resulting meaning(s) are often heteroglossic or at best ungainly.

• However, proof trees for more complicated examples can become ungainly.

• Finally, the book would be far more readable if the long quotes, ungainly sentences and inaccurate grammar had received more careful editorial attention.

• Why choose the rather ungainly age categories 'elderly' and 'nonelderly'?

• The strings "he, she or it", "his, her or its" or "him, her or it" are so ungainly that they should be avoided as much as possible.

• It admits that at the present stage of manufacture some of the fabrics are a little ungainly in appearance.

• The phrase "the will of a deceased person" is somewhat ungainly, since taken literally it would mean a will made by a deceased person.

• This idea, despite its somewhat ungainly name, has been adopted across the country by councils of differing political persuasions.

• The badger is rather an ungainly animal, but a particularly attractive one.

• The outcome is an ungainly beast of burden.

• There is no rule against it, but it is very ungainly.

• The industry has got together and ungainly squabbling behind the scenes is not now going on.

• I am quite certain that no development corporation is going to welcome ungainly and objectionable temporary premises.

• Surely, that would be adding a common nuisance to an already ungainly and useless object?

• She condemned the fall in foreign direct investment as an ungainly retreat.