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
Hiccup, played this time with game and gawky charm by Mason Thames, has been raised to think the only solution to violence is more violence.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 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
I stood there looking gawky, with one foot tucked behind the other.
From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
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
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
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
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