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

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

From The Guardian • Jul. 14, 2017

The gangling steward backed away, his hands upraised as if to say, Not me, it was not me.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin