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
The gawkish, gangling figures�some of them ceiling-tall�would be funny sacks indeed if they didn't look so sad.
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 Sherred, Thomas L.
Nothing was present to him but a sense of gawkish confusion, following on a wild impulse which both ashamed and alarmed him, he stood in a bumpkin attitude, biting his lips.
From Will Warburton by Gissing, George
