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
But if they do it will be a triumph of uniquely burly, gnarled, gangling proportions.
From The Guardian • Jul. 14, 2017
And the gangling, shuffling loose-jointed boys carrying suitcases were marching awkwardly down Main Street to the Southern Pacific Depot.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
