Lacking grace in movement or posture.
1 She reached out, grasped his shoulder, and stopped his gawky , long-legged strides.
2 But he was like a big, gawky teenager, new to his strength.
3 Between the zits and the gawky - elongated build, Dawes looked like a teenager.
4 Thought about him as a tall gawky eighteen-year-old, just off to West Point.
5 A moment later and the gawky Russian was transformed, gliding through the backwash.
6 A gawky farmer seized the boy and struck him cruelly across the mouth.
7 But she must have felt even more self-conscious than the normal gawky schoolgirl.
8 Very odd those gawky things, like prehistoric Great Auks, looked in the moonlight.
9 Most men of that size are just leggy and gawky : he is neither.
10 The pictures from this time were of a very tall, still gawky boy.
11 They make me think of myself and then I get gawky .
12 She wrapped her gawky arms around her clumsy body and hunched her shoulders.
13 In his excitement the gawky youth almost fell from his stool.
14 He also keeps Timothy gawky and nerdy, with a relentless optimism.
15 Even so, they were being directed across the squares with a gawky grace.
16 As a player he was gawky and uncoordinated, in flannels that had shrunk.
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