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
How did you step into Cootie’s gangling, somewhat awkward skin?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2023
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
“This is hard, Charles,” Skelton said to Charles Davis, a gangling and talented freshman forward.
From New York Times ● Jul. 16, 2015
Soon he came out, a gangling, tall, reddish-brownskinned fellow, at that time thirty- five years old; when my purpose was made known, he brisded, his eyes skewering me from behind the hom-rimmed glasses.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
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