amatungulu | (noun) very large closely branched South African shrub having forked bright green spines and shiny leaves | Synonyms: Carissa grandiflora, Carissa macrocarpa, natal plum |
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antifungal | (adjective) capable of destroying fungi | Synonyms: fungicidal |
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(noun) any agent that destroys or prevents the growth of fungi | Synonyms: antifungal agent, antimycotic, antimycotic agent, fungicide |
aqualung | (noun) a device (trade name Aqua-Lung) that lets divers breathe under water; scuba is an acronym for self-contained underwater breathing apparatus | Synonyms: Aqua-Lung, scuba |
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bung | (noun) a plug used to close a hole in a barrel or flask | Synonyms: spile |
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(verb) close with a cork or stopper | - |
(verb) give a tip or gratuity to in return for a service, beyond the compensation agreed on | Synonyms: fee, tip |
bungaloid | (adjective) characterized by bungalows | - |
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bungalow | (noun) a small house with a single story | Synonyms: cottage |
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bungee | (noun) an elasticized rope | Synonyms: bungee cord |
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bunghole | (noun) a hole in a barrel or cask; used to fill or empty it | - |
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(noun) vulgar slang for anus | Synonyms: arse, arsehole, asshole |
bungle | (noun) an embarrassing mistake | Synonyms: bloomer, blooper, blunder, boner, boo-boo, botch, flub, foul-up, fuckup, pratfall |
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(verb) spoil by behaving clumsily or foolishly | - |
(verb) make a mess of, destroy or ruin | Synonyms: ball up, blow, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bumble, flub, fluff, foul up, fuck up, fumble, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, muff, screw up, spoil |
bungled | (adjective) spoiled through incompetence or clumsiness | Synonyms: botched |
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bungler | (noun) someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence | Synonyms: blunderer, botcher, bumbler, butcher, fuckup, fumbler, sad sack, stumbler |
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bunglesome | (adjective) difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape | Synonyms: awkward, clumsy, ungainly |
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bungling | (adjective) lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands | Synonyms: bumbling, butterfingered, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, heavy-handed, left-handed |
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(adjective) showing lack of skill or aptitude | Synonyms: clumsy, fumbling, incompetent |
chunga | (noun) Argentinian Cariama | Synonyms: Chunga burmeisteri, seriema |
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dung | (noun) fecal matter of animals | Synonyms: droppings, muck |
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(verb) defecate; used of animals | - |
(verb) fertilize or dress with dung | - |
dungaree | (noun) a coarse durable twill-weave cotton fabric | Synonyms: denim, jean |
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dungeon | (noun) the main tower within the walls of a medieval castle or fortress | Synonyms: donjon, keep |
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(noun) a dark cell (usually underground) where prisoners can be confined | - |
dunghill | (noun) a heap of dung or refuse | Synonyms: midden, muckheap, muckhill |
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(noun) a foul or degraded condition | - |
expunge | (verb) remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line | Synonyms: excise, scratch, strike |
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expunging | (noun) deletion by an act of expunging or erasing | Synonyms: erasure, expunction |
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fungal | (adjective) of or relating to fungi | Synonyms: fungous |
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fungibility | (noun) the quality of being capable of exchange or interchange | Synonyms: exchangeability, interchangeability, interchangeableness |
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fungible | (adjective) of goods or commodities; freely exchangeable for or replaceable by another of like nature or kind in the satisfaction of an obligation | - |
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(noun) a commodity that is freely interchangeable with another in satisfying an obligation | - |
fungicidal | (adjective) capable of destroying fungi | Synonyms: antifungal |
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fungicide | (noun) any agent that destroys or prevents the growth of fungi | Synonyms: antifungal, antifungal agent, antimycotic, antimycotic agent |
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fungoid | (adjective) resembling fungi | Synonyms: funguslike |
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fungous | (adjective) of or relating to fungi | Synonyms: fungal |
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fungus | (noun) an organism of the kingdom Fungi lacking chlorophyll and feeding on organic matter; ranging from unicellular or multicellular organisms to spore-bearing syncytia | - |
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funguslike | (adjective) resembling fungi | Synonyms: fungoid |
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geebung | (noun) any of numerous shrubs and small trees having hard narrow leaves and long-lasting yellow or white flowers followed by small edible but insipid fruits | - |
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grunge | (noun) anything regarded as making something unclean | Synonyms: dirt, filth, grease, grime, soil, stain |
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grungily | (adverb) in a dingy manner | Synonyms: dingily, grubbily |
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grungy | (adjective) thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot | Synonyms: begrimed, dingy, grimy, grubby, raunchy |
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hunger | (noun) strong desire for something (not food or drink) | Synonyms: hungriness, thirst, thirstiness |
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(noun) a physiological need for food; the consequence of food deprivation | Synonyms: hungriness |
(verb) be hungry; go without food | Synonyms: famish, starve |
(verb) have a craving, appetite, or great desire for | Synonyms: crave, lust, starve, thirst |
(verb) feel the need to eat | - |
hungover | (adjective) Suffering the aftereffects of the consumption of alcohol | - |
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hungrily | (adverb) in the manner of someone who is very hungry | Synonyms: ravenously |
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hungriness | (noun) strong desire for something (not food or drink) | Synonyms: hunger, thirst, thirstiness |
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(noun) prolonged unfulfilled desire or need | Synonyms: longing, yearning |
(noun) a physiological need for food; the consequence of food deprivation | Synonyms: hunger |
hungry | (adjective) feeling hunger; feeling a need or desire to eat food | - |
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(adjective) (usually followed by `for') extremely desirous | Synonyms: athirst, thirsty |
inexpungeable | (adjective) not capable of being expunged | Synonyms: inexpungible |
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inexpungible | (adjective) not capable of being expunged | Synonyms: inexpungeable |
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jungle | (noun) a place where hoboes camp | Synonyms: hobo camp |
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(noun) an impenetrable equatorial forest | - |
(noun) a location marked by an intense competition and struggle for survival | - |
jungly | (adjective) overgrown with tropical vegetation | - |
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lounge | (noun) a room (as in a hotel or airport) with seating where people can wait | Synonyms: waiting area, waiting room |
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(noun) an upholstered seat for more than one person | Synonyms: couch, sofa |
(verb) sit or recline comfortably | - |
(verb) be about a place without any apparent purpose | Synonyms: footle, hang around, lallygag, linger, loaf, loiter, lollygag, lurk, mess about, mill about, mill around, tarry |
lounger | (noun) an armchair whose back can be lowered and foot can be raised to allow the sitter to recline in it | Synonyms: recliner, reclining chair |
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(noun) an article of clothing designed for comfort and leisure wear | - |
(noun) someone who wastes time | Synonyms: dallier, dilly-dallier, dillydallier, mope |
loungewear | (noun) clothing suitable for relaxation | - |
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lung | (noun) either of two saclike respiratory organs in the chest of vertebrates; serves to remove carbon dioxide and provide oxygen to the blood | - |
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lunge | (noun) the act of moving forward suddenly | Synonyms: lurch |
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(noun) (fencing) an attacking thrust made with one foot forward and the back leg straight and with the sword arm outstretched forward | Synonyms: passado, straight thrust |
(verb) make a thrusting forward movement | Synonyms: hurl, hurtle, thrust |
lungen | (noun) tree of southeastern Asia to Australia grown primarily for its sweet edible fruit resembling litchi nuts; sometimes placed in genera Euphorbia or Nephelium | Synonyms: Dimocarpus longan, Euphorbia litchi, longan, longanberry, Nephelium longana |
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lunger | (noun) someone who moves forward suddenly (as in fencing) | - |
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(noun) a person with pulmonary tuberculosis | Synonyms: consumptive, tubercular |
lungfish | (noun) air-breathing fish having an elongated body and fleshy paired fins; certain species construct mucus-lined mud coverings in which to survive drought | - |
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lungi | (noun) a long piece of brightly colored cloth (cotton or silk) used as clothing (a skirt or loincloth or sash etc.) in India and Pakistan and Burma | Synonyms: longyi, lungyi |
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lungyi | (noun) a long piece of brightly colored cloth (cotton or silk) used as clothing (a skirt or loincloth or sash etc.) in India and Pakistan and Burma | Synonyms: longyi, lungi |
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mung | (noun) seed of the mung bean plant used for food; food from the seed of the mung bean plant | Synonyms: golden gram, green bean, green gram, green soy, mash bean, monggo, moong, mung bean, munggo |
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(noun) erect bushy annual widely cultivated in warm regions of India and Indonesia and United States for forage and especially its edible seeds; chief source of bean sprouts used in Chinese cookery; sometimes placed in genus Phaseolus | Synonyms: mung bean, mung bean plant, Phaseolus aureus, Vigna radiata |
(noun) seed of the mung bean plant; used for food; seed of the mung bean plant | Synonyms: golden gram, green bean, green gram, green soy, mash bean, monggo, moong, mung bean, munggo |
munggo | (noun) seed of the mung bean plant used for food; food from the seed of the mung bean plant | Synonyms: golden gram, green bean, green gram, green soy, mash bean, monggo, moong, mung, mung bean |
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(noun) seed of the mung bean plant; used for food; seed of the mung bean plant | Synonyms: golden gram, green bean, green gram, green soy, mash bean, monggo, moong, mung, mung bean |
muskellunge | (noun) large (60 to 80 pounds) sport fish of North America | Synonyms: Esox masquinongy |
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(noun) flesh of very large North American pike; a game fish | - |
overstrung | (adjective) too tightly strung | - |
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(adjective) being in a tense state | Synonyms: edgy, high-strung, highly strung, jittery, jumpy, nervy, restive, uptight |
plunge | (noun) a brief swim in water | Synonyms: dip |
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(noun) a steep and rapid fall | - |
(verb) begin with vigor | Synonyms: launch |
(verb) devote (oneself) fully to | Synonyms: absorb, engross, engulf, immerse, soak up, steep |
(verb) cause to be immersed | Synonyms: immerse |
(verb) immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate | Synonyms: dip, douse, dunk, souse |
(verb) thrust or throw into | Synonyms: immerse |
(verb) fall abruptly | Synonyms: dump |
(verb) drop steeply | Synonyms: dive, plunk |
(verb) dash violently or with great speed or impetuosity | - |
plunger | (noun) mechanical device that has a plunging or thrusting motion | Synonyms: piston |
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(noun) hand tool consisting of a stick with a rubber suction cup at one end; used to clean clogged drains | Synonyms: plumber's helper |
(noun) someone who risks losses for the possibility of considerable gains | Synonyms: speculator |
(noun) someone who dives (into water) | Synonyms: diver |
pung | (noun) a one-horse sleigh consisting of a box on runners | - |
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pungapung | (noun) putrid-smelling aroid of southeastern Asia (especially the Philippines) grown for its edible tuber | Synonyms: Amorphophallus campanulatus, Amorphophallus paeonifolius, elephant yam, telingo potato |
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pungency | (noun) a strong odor or taste property | Synonyms: bite, raciness, sharpness |
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(noun) wit having a sharp and caustic quality | Synonyms: bite |
pungent | (adjective) capable of wounding | Synonyms: barbed, biting, mordacious, nipping |
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(adjective) strong and sharp | Synonyms: acrid |
pungently | (adverb) with a pungent taste or smell | - |
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(adverb) with pungency; in a pungent manner | - |
quellung | (noun) the swelling of the capsule surrounding a microorganism after reaction with an antibody; the basis of certain tests for identifying microorganisms | Synonyms: quellung reaction |
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rung | (noun) one of the crosspieces that form the steps of a ladder | Synonyms: rundle, spoke |
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(noun) a crosspiece between the legs of a chair | Synonyms: round, stave |
scrounge | (verb) collect or look around for (food) | Synonyms: forage |
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(verb) obtain or seek to obtain by cadging or wheedling | Synonyms: cadge, schnorr, shnorr |
scrounger | (noun) someone who mooches or cadges (tries to get something free) | Synonyms: cadger, mooch, moocher |
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shantung | (noun) a heavy silk fabric with a rough surface (or a cotton imitation) | - |
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strung | (adjective) that is on a string | - |
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stung | (adjective) aroused to impatience or anger | Synonyms: annoyed, irritated, miffed, nettled, peeved, pissed, pissed off, riled, roiled, steamed |
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sunglass | (noun) a convex lens that focuses the rays of the sun; used to start a fire | - |
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sunglasses | (noun) (plural) spectacles that are darkened or polarized to protect the eyes from the glare of the sun | Synonyms: dark glasses, shades |
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tudung | (noun) a scarf worn around the head by Muslim women in Malaysia; conceals the hair but not the face | - |
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tung | (noun) Chinese tree bearing seeds that yield tung oil | Synonyms: Aleurites fordii, tung-oil tree, tung tree |
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tungstate | (noun) a salt of tungstic acid | - |
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tungsten | (noun) a heavy grey-white metallic element; the pure form is used mainly in electrical applications; it is found in several ores including wolframite and scheelite | Synonyms: atomic number 74, W, wolfram |
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underhung | (adjective) having a lower part projecting beyond the upper | Synonyms: undershot, underslung |
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(adjective) supported from below especially resting on a track instead of suspended from above | - |
underslung | (adjective) having a low center of gravity; built low to the ground | Synonyms: squat |
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(adjective) having a lower part projecting beyond the upper | Synonyms: underhung, undershot |
(adjective) supported from above especially in a vehicle having springs attached to the axle from below | - |
ungainliness | (noun) the carriage of someone whose movements and posture are extremely ungainly and inelegant | Synonyms: gawkiness |
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ungainly | (adjective) lacking grace in movement or posture | Synonyms: clumsy, clunky, gawky, unwieldy |
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(adjective) difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape | Synonyms: awkward, bunglesome, clumsy |
ungallant | (adjective) offensively discourteous | Synonyms: caddish, unchivalrous |
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ungarbed | (adjective) having removed clothing | Synonyms: unappareled, unattired, unclad, undressed, ungarmented |
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ungarmented | (adjective) having removed clothing | Synonyms: unappareled, unattired, unclad, undressed, ungarbed |
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ungathered | (adjective) not brought together in one place | Synonyms: uncollected |
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ungeared | (adjective) having gears not engaged or disconnected | - |
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ungenerous | (adjective) lacking in magnanimity | Synonyms: meanspirited |
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(adjective) unwilling to spend (money, time, resources, etc.) | Synonyms: stingy |
ungentle | (adjective) not of the nobility | Synonyms: ignoble, untitled |
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ungentlemanlike | (adjective) not befitting a gentleman | Synonyms: ungentlemanly |
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ungentlemanly | (adjective) not befitting a gentleman | Synonyms: ungentlemanlike |
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ungetatable | (adjective) difficult to reach or attain | Synonyms: un-come-at-able, un-get-at-able |
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unglamorous | (adjective) not challenging; dull and lacking excitement | Synonyms: commonplace, humdrum, prosaic, unglamourous |
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unglamourous | (adjective) not challenging; dull and lacking excitement | Synonyms: commonplace, humdrum, prosaic, unglamorous |
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unglazed | (adjective) not having a shiny coating | - |
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(adjective) not furnished with glass | Synonyms: glassless |
ungodliness | (noun) impiety by virtue of not being a godly person | Synonyms: godlessness |
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ungodly | (adjective) characterized by iniquity; wicked because it is believed to be a sin | Synonyms: iniquitous, sinful |
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ungovernable | (adjective) incapable of being controlled | Synonyms: indocile, uncontrollable, unruly |
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ungoverned | (adjective) lacking in discipline or control | Synonyms: undisciplined |
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(adjective) not restrained or controlled | Synonyms: unbridled, unchecked, uncurbed |
ungraceful | (adjective) lacking grace; clumsy | Synonyms: graceless |
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ungracefully | (adverb) without grace; rigidly | Synonyms: gracelessly, ungraciously, woodenly |
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ungracefulness | (noun) an unpleasant lack of grace in carriage or form or movement or expression | Synonyms: gracelessness |
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