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Significados de gawky em inglês

Lacking grace in movement or posture.

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Uso de gawky em inglês
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She reached out, grasped his shoulder, and stopped his gawky, long-legged strides.
Mine
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But he was like a big, gawky teenager, new to his strength.
Storm front
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Between the zits and the gawky-elongated build, Dawes looked like a teenager.
The Butcher of Anderson Station
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Thought about him as a tall gawky eighteen-year-old, just off to West Point.
Jack Reacher 01 - Killing Floor
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A moment later and the gawky Russian was transformed, gliding through the backwash.
The Irish Times
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A gawky farmer seized the boy and struck him cruelly across the mouth.
The Oakdale Affair
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But she must have felt even more self-conscious than the normal gawky schoolgirl.
The Irish Times
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Very odd those gawky things, like prehistoric Great Auks, looked in the moonlight.
The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies
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Most men of that size are just leggy and gawky: he is neither.
Winding Paths
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The pictures from this time were of a very tall, still gawky boy.
The Beast Within
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They make me think of myself and then I get gawky.
The Shield of Silence
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She wrapped her gawky arms around her clumsy body and hunched her shoulders.
Pegasus
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In his excitement the gawky youth almost fell from his stool.
Melnitz
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He also keeps Timothy gawky and nerdy, with a relentless optimism.
Wired
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Even so, they were being directed across the squares with a gawky grace.
The dark side of the sun
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As a player he was gawky and uncoordinated, in flannels that had shrunk.
The Guardian
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