gawky
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The two know each other from grade school years earlier but hadn’t been friends, and now they’re gawky teenagers practiced in the supreme virtue of adolescence, which is to be cool.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
He said the teenager came across as an "unremarkable, sullen, untalkative, gawky teenage boy" during their sessions together.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2025
I remember lining up for hours to see Burton’s "Batman" as a gawky sixteen-year-old in 1996, when nerdy was truly nerdy, not a front-handed compliment.
From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2024
‘THE OUTLAWS’ Prime Video Gangly, gawky Stephen Merchant puts his physicality and hangdog persona to fine use in this British crime comedy.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2024
Through middle school he was this gawky and goofy kid with a cute smile.
From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed
The gawkier sibling to its better-known predecessor, Giordano’s “Andrea Chénier,” “Fedora” is not a perfect piece.
From New York Times ● Jan. 1, 2023
He is gawkier, with an almost formal reserve.
From New York Times ● Jan. 11, 2021
It did seem funny driving off with him, for when I came to think of it, I was never alone with a man before; but he was gawkier about it than I was.
From Set in Silver by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson
Yet Mitch refuses to forget the article, like a supermodel carting around her gawkiest middle-school photo as if to keep herself in check.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 21, 2018
He was seventeen years old when he entered college and was one of the "gawkiest" students.
From Thomas Jefferson, a Character Sketch by Edward Sylvester Ellis
On the morning of the muster, there appeared before the tall Lieutenant, a man full three inches taller, and famous in his county as the gawkiest, slab-sidest, homeliest, best-natured fellow in the State.
From The Victim A romance of the Real Jefferson Davis by Thomas Dixon
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