- a variation of gawky.
gawkish
Example Sentences
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One fissure will ruin the labor of years, and one fissure may be produced by the slip of one gawkish moving man.*
From Time Magazine Archive
With love and a lick of shame that their families who had come to meet them were so... so ... gawkish.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
Kellner and a gawkish Great Dane led me sheet and all to what I thought would be the operating room.
From Cue for Quiet by Thomas L. Sherred
About sunset one day she saw a tall, gawkish boy come riding along the road, astride of one of the rough, wild, South Carolina ponies.
From Historic Boyhoods by Rupert Sargent Holland
Bridget may have been a gawk, but she did two things which were not gawkish.
From The Manxman A Novel - 1895 by Sir Hall Caine
