knock-kneed
- a word derived from knock-knee.
Example Sentences
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Pattinson has incredible physical control over both 17’s slack-jawed, knock-kneed cartoon and his identical opposite.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 7, 2025
The tower would appear to float one floor above the pavement, which is to say it would become knock-kneed and top-heavy.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 1, 2017
Here are the knock-kneed chorus-girl lines of “Stravinsky Violin Concerto”; the acerbic, experimental partnering of the opening pas de deux in “Four Temperaments”; the acrobatic, pushed-to-the-limit flexibility of “Agon”; the high-spirited jogging groups of “Rubies.”
From New York Times • May 2, 2011
"There I am," he wrote, "knock-kneed and toddler-bellied, not reaching up to my granddad's waist."
From The Guardian • Aug. 26, 2010
If a given suspect is a knock-kneed weakling, he says, he is less likely to be the culprit than a great big bruiser with Hate tattooed on his forehead.*
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
