[Cf. prec. and UNGAIN a.]
† 1. Threateningly, terribly. Obs.1
a. 1200. St. Marher., 9. He ȝeonede mid his wide geneow uppon hire ungeinliche.
† 2. Improperly, unduly; unsuitably. Obs.
c. 1400. Destr. Troy, 9333. Oure godys, oure gold [are] vngaynly dispendit.
c. 1460. Towneley Myst., xvi. 160. Thus shuld ye not thrett vs, vngaynly to bete vs.
1548. Elyot, Inconmodé, vngaynely, vnhansomely, vneasyly.
3. In an ungainly manner; awkwardly, clumsily, ungracefully.
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.
1705. Vanbrugh, Confed., I. iii. Why dost thou stare, and look so ungainly; Dont I speak to be understood?
1854. Miss Baker, Northampt. Gloss., Skrauming, spreading widely, stretching out the arms ungainly.
1896. Westm. Gaz., 9 May, 2/1. Mr. Record-Breaker waddles ungainly by, and is lost in the crowd.