[Cf. prec. and UNGAIN a.]

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  † 1.  Threateningly, terribly. Obs.1

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a. 1200.  St. Marher., 9. He … ȝeonede mid his wide geneow uppon hire ungeinliche.

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  † 2.  Improperly, unduly; unsuitably. Obs.

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c. 1400.  Destr. Troy, 9333. Oure godys, oure gold [are] vngaynly dispendit.

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c. 1460.  Towneley Myst., xvi. 160. Thus shuld ye not thrett vs, vngaynly to bete vs.

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1548.  Elyot, Inconmodé,… vngaynely,… vnhansomely, vneasyly.

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  3.  In an ungainly manner; awkwardly, clumsily, ungracefully.

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a. 1661.  Fuller, Worthies, Cambridge. I. (1662), 150. A Camel passeth in the Latine proverb, either for gibbous and distorted, or for one that undertaketh a thing awkely or ungeenly.

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1705.  Vanbrugh, Confed., I. iii. Why dost thou stare, and look so ungainly; Don’t I speak to be understood?

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1854.  Miss Baker, Northampt. Gloss., Skrauming, spreading widely, stretching out the arms ungainly.

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1896.  Westm. Gaz., 9 May, 2/1. Mr. Record-Breaker … waddles ungainly by, and is lost in the crowd.

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