ungainliness

Noun

Meaning

The state or quality of being ungainly; awkwardness.

Source: Webster's dictionary

inability ignorance incompetence harshness ineptitude clumsiness disfigurement coarseness cacophony awkwardness greenness rudeness artlessness crudeness inelegance

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class duty flexibility dignity courtesy agility

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clumsiness

Heaven sometimes hedges a rare character about with ungainliness and odium, as the burr that protects the fruit. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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