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

At first the roles that came to him were mostly comic, owing perhaps to his gangling figure and pilgrim looks — long face, sharp nose, superb eyebrows.

From New York Times • Feb. 17, 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

Bewildered, Salvador stopped, whirled around, and stood waiting as a gangling youth came shouldering his way through the market crowd toward them.

From "Lupita Mañana" by Patricia Beatty