gawky

Example Sentences

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There were two men when Aunt Tess and I first arrived, clean-shaven and gawky, but they left and all the other attendees are women.

From Literature

Tina Fey credits Moore for granting her a template to use to develop her overworked, gawky Liz Lemon on “30 Rock.”

From Salon

He said the teenager came across as an "unremarkable, sullen, untalkative, gawky teenage boy" during their sessions together.

From BBC

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

Moreover, the script transitions him, through Finan’s effective performance, from a gawky, bespectacled nerd putting on airs, into an unctuous political predator.

From Salon