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
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
The gangling steward backed away, his hands upraised as if to say, Not me, it was not me.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
