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

At first the roles that came to him were mostly comic, owing perhaps to his gangling figure and pilgrim looks — long face, sharp nose, superb eyebrows.

From New York Times • Feb. 17, 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

They had gone but halfway around the floor when Francie discovered that his gangling awkwardness was extremely deceptive.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith