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Перевод: ungainly

[прилагательное]
неловкий; неуклюжий; нескладный

Тезаурус:

1. This ungainly fellow, dressed in dishevelled robes and dancing with a curiously lopsided but fetching clumsiness, somehow managed to touch thousands.
2. On his arrival in Australia the unnamed chestnut colt was a tall, ungainly and unsightly animal with no hint of quality, and Davis so regretted his outlay, however modest, that the only way Telford could keep the horse in training was to make an arrangement with Davis whereby Telford himself took a three-year lease on the horse, taking two thirds of any prize money won in return for footing the training bill.
3. They were both ungainly.
4. Jim looked over and smiled as his daughter made rather ungainly attempts to emulate the lively young girls above her, but then as he watched he became slightly concerned, because her movements became even more ungainly and then spasmodic, and then jerky until her head was nodding, her legs shooting out in a frenzy, her arms twitching, and she fell, uttering a loud cry, which was so strong and unreal, that it stilled the noise of the bagpipes and everyone looked to see what was happening.
5. Add to this the change in orientation of the legs in many reptiles, which can be used in an efficient running action, unlike the ungainly waddling of the amphibians and it will be apparent why the reptiles were better adapted to terrestrial life than the amphibians, and why they largely displaced them.
6. Michael Heseltine's ungainly hybrid replacement received a poor reception from Tory activists gathered at Southport last weekend.
7. They were ugly and ungainly, but necessary, Blackadder thought, as they sprang up like the heads of the Hydra, two to solve in the place of one solved.
8. She steps from the bath, stretching for a towel in one of those ungainly, intimate postures so beloved of Impressionist painters and deplored by the feminist art historians Robyn admires.
9. I wore a borrowed dress, and carried a huge, ungainly bouquet of crysanthemums (in wartime there were no roses in December).
10. Then, with his legs like dough and his breath tearing out of his chest, Tug raised his head and saw the jagged, ungainly outline of the Castle Rock, sharp against the sky.
11. It is the home of the large sandy red South Devon cow, whose rather ungainly and capacious udder yields ample milk rich in butterfat - typical of cows whose skin is tinged with yellow.
12. At more than 18 hands, Party Politics, who was the tallest of Saturday's 40 runners, had been criticised for being ungainly.