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

An awkward, gangling kid, he failed to make the team at Hoover Junior High School.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 31, 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

“This is hard, Charles,” Skelton said to Charles Davis, a gangling and talented freshman forward.

From New York Times • Jul. 16, 2015

He realized now that the shout had been merely a summons to someone named Nebre, for a gangling figure was hurrying toward them from another part of the shop.

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw