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gawky
[ gaw-kee ]
adjective
, gawk·i·er, gawk·i·est.
- awkward; ungainly; clumsy.
gawky
/ ˈɡɔːkɪ /
adjective
- clumsy or ungainly; awkward
- dialect.left-handed
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Derived Forms
- ˈgawkiness, noun
- ˈgawkily, adverb
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Other Words From
- gawki·ly gawkish·ly adverb
- gawki·ness gawkish·ness noun
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Example Sentences
The Movement: Julia had this gawky awkwardness, which Streep picks up.
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He was reminded of the flight of time only by the growth of his son—a gawky, long-limbed boy.
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Mediocrity had only seen the gawky stripling, with his moonstruck air, and pestilent habit of trying some new crotchet.
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It sets up a gawky fellow to find a girl who ain't ashamed to be seen walking with him Sundays.
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Three big, gawky helmet-headed beetles next followed, bearing rice-sprouts, with full heads of rice.
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But who would ever have imagined that that gawky shock-headed American boy had really got so much romance in him!
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