gangling

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The best known is NASA's ER-2, a derivative of the U-2 spy plane with a tiny fuselage and gangling, oversized wings.

From Scientific American • Sep. 20, 2023

An awkward, gangling kid, he failed to make the team at Hoover Junior High School.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 31, 2022

He's also given the tall, gangling, slightly cadaverous writer ill-fitting clothes and cabbage-patch hair which he thinks were characteristic.

From BBC • Nov. 7, 2017

But if they do it will be a triumph of uniquely burly, gnarled, gangling proportions.

From The Guardian • Jul. 14, 2017

And so he grew older and taller—they were a tall family, with gangling legs and finely made hands—and he waited.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell