Translation for "ungainly" to french

Ungainly

adjective

• disgracieux
• gauche
• dégingandé

Translation examples

disgracieux adjective

Become ungainly, old man.
Devenez disgracieux, vieil homme.

It's cumbersome, un... ungainly.
C'est lourd, et, et disgracieux.

Your brain would make a grain of sand look large and ungainly.
Ta cervelle ferait passer un grain de sable pour gros et disgracieux.

Often as heavy as two tons, ungainly on feet too small for their bulk the hippos nonetheless leave the water at night sometimes walk for several miles to graze and consume as much as 400 pounds of grass before returning to the river.
Pesant souvent 2 tonnes, disgracieux sur leurs pattes trop petites, les Hippopotames sortent de l'eau la nuit et font parfois plusieurs kilomètres pour aller paître et consommer Jusqu'à 1 80 kg d'Herbe, avant de retourner dans le fleuve.

He'll be this morose, ungainly misfit among men.
Il sera morose... disgracieux et marginal parmi les siens.

This first robot was quite ungainly and its functions were limited.
Ce premier robot était disgracieux, et ses fonctions limitées.

And even the ungainly little Weaver children...
Et même les disgracieux petits Weaver... - Ils sont si mignons.

But then, of course, his body was so ungainly finally, and lumpy, but, uh...
Bien sûr, il était si disgracieux et maladroit, mais, euh...

gauche adjective

65. Although the language was somewhat ungainly, it represented a carefully considered attempt to accommodate a strong division of opinion; those who criticized it should propose better language.
En dépit d'une formulation un peu gauche, il s'agit d'une tentative prudente de conciliation de positions fortement divergentes; ceux qui la critiquent devraient proposer une meilleure formulation.

His jaws are stronger than those of a lion, and he has those powerful forequarters but nature saw fit to give him a weak and wobbly rear end and a slow, ungainly gait.
Sa mâchoire est plus puissante que celle d'un lion... mais la nature l'a dotée de pattes arrière faibles et chancelantes... et d'une démarche lente et gauche.