A gawky lad with long ungainly legs. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Then he calls a gawky, red-haired chap, that stood good six-feet two. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Humorous Verse] Reference
Local wineries fell into this trap as well, resulting in gawky, disjointed wines that did both the grape and the region a disservice. From Wordnik.com. [The New York Cork Report:] Reference
As for the town of Brighton, it's what I would call a gawky piece of London. From Wordnik.com. [The Ayrshire Legatees, or, the Pringle family] Reference
Elle magazine, whose then editor, Sally Brampton, later recalled the gawky teenager as. From Wordnik.com. [Mail & Guardian Online] Reference
Now to be called gawky when he thought the gesture was particularly graceful, was indeed discouraging. From Wordnik.com. [Half-Past Seven Stories] Reference
I went to the Eagle in Atlanta and I felt like some kind of gawky white heron or an egret or something in a cave full of bears. From Wordnik.com. [Firedoglake » Late Nite FDL: Waiting for Wankette] Reference
Doniger remembers Coppola as a "gawky" boy with a head full of ideas. From Wordnik.com. [The Chicago Blog] Reference
Raina's background story because I've only gotten two words: "gawky" and "volleyball.". From Wordnik.com. [TV Squad] Reference
He's more like a big, gawky, very eager Labrador puppy. From Wordnik.com. [William Bradley: Mad Men Makes the All-Time Television Pantheon and Unspools Another Fine Episode] Reference
His voice and mannerisms were aw-shucks cuddly, shy, and gawky. From Wordnik.com. [James Scarborough: "Supernova" at the Elephant Theatre Company] Reference
No point in standing here gazing at him like some gawky teenager. From Wordnik.com. [Purchased For Revenge]
My kibitzer came stalking out of the building, gangling and gawky. From Wordnik.com. [Card Trick] Reference
It is not high enough for such a tall, strapping gawky as you are. From Wordnik.com. [Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 2 (of 3)] Reference
MEZRICH: These were geeky, gawky kids at Harvard who couldn't meet girls. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 18, 2009] Reference
Thought about him as a tall gawky eighteen-year-old, just off to West Point. From Wordnik.com. [Killing Floor]
'The last I saw of him he was dancing an eightsome with that gawky Raven girl. From Wordnik.com. [Come To Grief]
The gawky chap was Mr. Dave Harrison, one of the finest operators in the profession. From Wordnik.com. [Danger Signals Remarkable, Exciting and Unique Examples of the Bravery, Daring and Stoicism in the Midst of Danger of Train Dispatchers and Railroad Engineers] Reference
Here we could walk abreast, Holmes as a hobbling old lady, myself as a gawky farm boy. From Wordnik.com. [The Beekeeper's Apprentice]
We introduced the gawky, funny-looking chicken with long legs and a mixture of feathers. From Wordnik.com. [Amy Bernays: Motherhood] Reference
The man with the want fell fast asleep in his chair, with his limbs in gawky disposition. From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
"Cute kid," I mumbled as I flipped through the pages showing Brandi as a gawky adolescent. From Wordnik.com. [The Trouble with Witches]
And his neck was not bony, as it is in most youths at this gawky age, but smoothly rounded. From Wordnik.com. [Riders of the Silences] Reference
The fiery, funny Ruehl and the neurotic, wonderfully gawky Plummer create indelible characters. From Wordnik.com. [The Holy Grail In The Unholy City] Reference
He was gawky, with as much neck as head, and an Adam's apple that pumped with incessant outrage. From Wordnik.com. [Stallion Gate]
The dovecote, the aviary, the gawky young Emperor tending his birds every morning ... personally. From Wordnik.com. [2005]
A long black coat hampered his movements, and he looked gawky enough, stumbling through the rushes. From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
So I watched as the deeply tanned man ran about the yard, mimicking the gawky movements of his prey. From Wordnik.com. [Amy Bernays: Motherhood] Reference
For now she was desolate that she almost loved this gawky youth throbbing in sympathy with her tribulation. From Wordnik.com. [Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure] Reference
Neither of them was so gawky now, and both of them were much sought socially during their vacations at home. From Wordnik.com. [The Blood of the Conquerors] Reference
Poorly clad, tall, gawky, and green-looking, he entered the city where he had neither friend nor acquaintance. From Wordnik.com. [How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success] Reference
He was a plain, gawky, nervous man, very freckled at the hands, and as poor a leg in the kilt as well could be. From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
She had found her mothering instincts and had graduated from a selfish, gawky young chicken, and become a momma. From Wordnik.com. [Amy Bernays: Motherhood] Reference
A little way off was this gawky, green, uncouth soldier striding back and forth with the snow pelting him in the face. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons on Biblical Characters] Reference
I know it, because I heard him ask that gawky chap they call Mason if he could stay on Wednesday evenings for the dancing class. From Wordnik.com. [Jack of Both Sides The Story of a School War] Reference
She cuffed and comforted him into a gawky-happy adolescence, pushed him through high school and then, at eighteen, sent him off to the. From Wordnik.com. [Make Mine Homogenized] Reference
It's fairly easy to spot Kyle Shanahan at Redskins Park: He's the one who's so gawky and kid-faced he could be mistaken for an adolescent. From Wordnik.com. [Kyle Shanahan takes over Redskins offense] Reference
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