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ungraceful

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Not graceful; lacking grace.

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For these two weeks, the greater bounds of Sochi may as well be a giant "kiss and cry," wherein supremely gifted athletes from around the world are expected to compete as well in the ungraceful activity of oversharing.

He rolled on top, ungraceful and floppy, bit his lower lip and pushed.

His swing was hurried and ungraceful but his balls went straight, and the second rolled up to the fringe of the green.

Boule's conclusions were studied and then echoed by many of his contemporaries; the British anthropologist Sir Grafton Elliot Smith, for instance, described Neanderthals as walking with "a half-stooping slouch" upon "legs of a peculiarly ungraceful form".

In Nashville, Kwan performed the first triple-jump combination perfectly, but slipped skating out of the second one, and ended up in an ungraceful sprawl on the ice.

Tall (six feet four inches), ungraceful, and a bit bowlegged, he aims to batter opponents into submission with his powerful serve and windmilling ground strokes.

There, amid belching smokestacks and clanging delivery trucks, sits artwork made by Mr. Serra, a secret grace note in a decidedly ungraceful block.

She ran so awkwardly, so rigidly, that she once compared her ungraceful movements here to that of a cow on ice.

This wasn't an easy day for the legions who root against James, the combination of his ungraceful exit from Cleveland and the whole concept of the Heat's Big Three as his shortcut to a title being hard to overcome with a few earnest words as he appears ready to finish that shortcut.

Explaining Jumping Process Richard dressed Harpe in a harness, helmet and hard-plastic knee-and-shin guards, meant to protect against a possibly ungraceful landing.

However, he went winless for a five-month stretch after his monumental victory over Woods in the Honda Classic in March, his ungraceful play capsulized by a 77 on the Saturday of the Masters in a round so rotten he received a consoling hug from his playing partner, Sergio García.

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