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Gawky   /gˈɔki/   Listen
Gawky

adjective
(compar. gawkier; superl. gawkiest)
1.
Lacking grace in movement or posture.  Synonyms: clumsy, clunky, ungainly, unwieldy.  "Clumsy fingers" , "What an ungainly creature a giraffe is" , "Heaved his unwieldy figure out of his chair"






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"Gawky" Quotes from Famous Books



... lessons were fun for him; the big, gawky, half-starved, overworked child seeing so vividly in pictures all that he told her in words. Full-fed on the scraps from Maverick's—he was no longer fastidious—well stimulated by the drink she brought, he took an ugly sort of degraded pleasure in posturing before her, acting as he alone could ...
— O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921 • Various



Words linked to "Gawky" :   awkward, gawkiness, gawk



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