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
How did you step into Cootie’s gangling, somewhat awkward skin?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2023
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
He could not have been any older than sixteen, yet he was even taller than his father, almost seven feet of legs and shins and elbows, a gangling, gawky boy with a cowlick.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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