gawky
adjective
awkward; ungainly; clumsy.
gawkiness
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a word derived from
gawky.
Example Sentences
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The growing closeness between Olive, played with quiet radiance by Ms. Rogers, and William, whom Mr. McHale renders with galumphing gawkiness, forms another affecting strand of the score.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 24, 2025
The show's enduring sweetness always rested in Maya and Anna's glorious gawkiness, and the way it cements their devotion to one another.
From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2020
Some studied themselves in the wall-to-wall mirrors; others fixed their gaze on Jones, whose eyes moved from body to body as the dancers executed an arm-swinging gesture imitative of immature gawkiness.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 30, 2019
As with King Richard, though, we catch ourselves rather warming to his gawkiness, laughing at his jokes, and perhaps even quietly respecting his total disregard for what anyone else thinks of him: “Why be liked?”
From Economist ● Jul. 6, 2017
What a contrast the lady behind must find in his gawkiness compared with the correct and composed deportment of the Capital she had come from!
From Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure by Neil Munro
