gawkish

Example Sentences

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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

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

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

Bridget may have been a gawk, but she did two things which were not gawkish.

From The Manxman A Novel - 1895 by Caine, Hall, Sir