gawkish

With love and a lick of shame that their families who had come to meet them were so... so ... gawkish.

He was not the only player to do that, of course, nor even the only player in the Italy team, obviously, but he was by far the most irritating offender, primarily because even after the referee made his decisions, the gawkish saltimbanco harangued his supposed aggressor with all the righteous indignation of a nun in a knocking shop.

Barbra Streisand could be a gawkish version of Charlie Chaplin's Tramp, except that all the Tramp usually wanted was a full bowl of soup, and the character Barbra plays wants the world for her pearl-filled oyster.

One fissure will ruin the labor of years, and one fissure may be produced by the slip of one gawkish moving man.*

The gawkish, gangling figures�some of them ceiling-tall�would be funny sacks indeed if they didn't look so sad.