- 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
The gawkish, gangling figures�some of them ceiling-tall�would be funny sacks indeed if they didn't look so sad.
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
They do not appear embarrased, still less do they appear gawkish or stupid, when addressed.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. by Various
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 Gissing, George
