ungainly



all thumbs, awkward, blundering, boorish, bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, careless, clownish, clumsy, clumsy-fisted, cumbersome, fingers all thumbs, fumbling, gauche,

   relief printing - graphic arts, half-tone engraving, letterpress, lithography, mimeograph, offset, onset, photoengraving, photography, printmaking, publication, publishing, rotogravure, stencil, typography,

   decapitation - axe, burning, capital punishment, chair, crucifixion, electrocution, execution, fusillade, gallows, gas chamber, guillotine, hanging, hemlock, hot seat, poisoning,

   unexplored - able, enigmatic, incalculable, invisible, mysterious, puzzling, sealed, strange, unapparent, unbeknown, uncharted, unclassified, unconsidered, undetected, undisclosed,

   rush into - dive into, plunge, plunge into ,

   hot goods - blackmail, boodle, booty, contraband, dope, graft, haul, loot, perks, perquisite, pickings, plunder, pork barrel, prize, public trough,

   shabby - Mickey Mouse, abandoned, abject, abominable, arrant, atrocious, awful, bare, base, battered, beastly, beat-up, bedraggled, beggarly, beneath contempt,

   draw up - bring up, bring up short, cease fire, come together, come up short, copy, copy out, crystallize, draft, drag up, dredge, dredge up, edit, engross, fall in,

   rapid succession - constancy, continuity, perpetuity, pulsation, rapidity, regularity, repetition, staccato, stuttering, tattoo, vibration ,

   llano - alkali flat, alluvial plain, basin, champaign, champaign country, coastal plain, delta, desert, down, downs, fell, flat, flat country, flatland, flats,

   make a detour - bypass, detour, deviate, digress, go around ,