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Meanings of gawky in inglês

Lacking grace in movement or posture.

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Usage of gawky in inglês
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She reached out, grasped his shoulder, and stopped his gawky, long-legged strides.
Mine
2
But he was like a big, gawky teenager, new to his strength.
Storm front
3
Between the zits and the gawky-elongated build, Dawes looked like a teenager.
The Butcher of Anderson Station
4
Thought about him as a tall gawky eighteen-year-old, just off to West Point.
Jack Reacher 01 - Killing Floor
5
A moment later and the gawky Russian was transformed, gliding through the backwash.
The Irish Times
6
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
8
Very odd those gawky things, like prehistoric Great Auks, looked in the moonlight.
The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies
9
Most men of that size are just leggy and gawky: he is neither.
Winding Paths
10
The pictures from this time were of a very tall, still gawky boy.
The Beast Within
11
They make me think of myself and then I get gawky.
The Shield of Silence
12
She wrapped her gawky arms around her clumsy body and hunched her shoulders.
Pegasus
13
In his excitement the gawky youth almost fell from his stool.
Melnitz
14
He also keeps Timothy gawky and nerdy, with a relentless optimism.
Wired
15
Even so, they were being directed across the squares with a gawky grace.
The dark side of the sun
16
As a player he was gawky and uncoordinated, in flannels that had shrunk.
The Guardian
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