gangling

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The best known is NASA's ER-2, a derivative of the U-2 spy plane with a tiny fuselage and gangling, oversized wings.

From Scientific American • Sep. 20, 2023

An awkward, gangling kid, he failed to make the team at Hoover Junior High School.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 31, 2022

He's also given the tall, gangling, slightly cadaverous writer ill-fitting clothes and cabbage-patch hair which he thinks were characteristic.

From BBC • Nov. 7, 2017

“This is hard, Charles,” Skelton said to Charles Davis, a gangling and talented freshman forward.

From New York Times • Jul. 16, 2015

Soon he came out, a gangling, tall, reddish-brownskinned fellow, at that time thirty- five years old; when my purpose was made known, he brisded, his eyes skewering me from behind the hom-rimmed glasses.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey