gawky
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Gawky and bespectacled but with the brio of a scrapper, Pearlman was dressed like a quintessential sports geek: black-and-yellow Pittsburgh Pirates hat and Pittsburgh Maulers shirt, the latter a long-gone professional football team.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 22, 2025
Gawky models running through some seedy noodle joint is the hipster technique du jour.
From Washington Post • Sep. 14, 2018
Gawky, toothy, sickly and painfully thin, she was teased, in the sometimes harsh Kennedy way, as “Puny Eunie.”
From Washington Post • Apr. 13, 2018
Biased Bolsheviki think he is a gawk; hence the expression, "Gawky Gorky."
From Time Magazine Archive
On my return, I met my comrade, Squire Gawky, whom his father had sent, some time ago, to town, for his improvement in writing, dancing, fencing, and other modish qualifications.
From The Adventures of Roderick Random by Smollett, T. (Tobias)
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