- a variation of gawky.
gawkish
Example Sentences
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One fissure will ruin the labor of years, and one fissure may be produced by the slip of one gawkish moving man.*
From Time Magazine Archive
With love and a lick of shame that their families who had come to meet them were so... so ... gawkish.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
Nothing was present to him but a sense of gawkish confusion, following on a wild impulse which both ashamed and alarmed him, he stood in a bumpkin attitude, biting his lips.
From Will Warburton by George Gissing
About sunset one day she saw a tall, gawkish boy come riding along the road, astride of one of the rough, wild, South Carolina ponies.
From Historic Boyhoods by Rupert Sargent Holland
Bridget may have been a gawk, but she did two things which were not gawkish.
From The Manxman A Novel - 1895 by Sir Hall Caine
