Desgarbado in english
Ungainly
pronunciation: əngeɪnli part of speech: adjective
pronunciation: əngeɪnli part of speech: adjective
In gestures
desgarbado = gawky ; shambling ; gangly ; gangling ; ungainly.
Example: His zany humor, gawky production, and sexual exhibitionism have grown in this new film into a confident, ironic account of a world in which it pays to be rich and beautiful.Example: Nature meant him for a slipshod, shambling Bohemian -- happy, out-at-the-elbows, always in debt, always irresponsible, and always pursued by duns and bailiffs.Example: If you'd seen me in my teens, you certainly wouldn't have thought me a heartbreaker -- geeky and gangly with dreadful spots.Example: A stooped and gangling figure with a long, lugubrious face, clad in flapping trousers and deerstalker hat, he had a stammer which he exaggerated to tremendous comic effect.Example: Secondly, zebras can be ungainly when they run -- it is all legs, arse and tail.