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

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

About sunset one day she saw a tall, gawkish boy come riding along the road, astride of one of the rough, wild, South Carolina ponies.

From Historic Boyhoods by Holland, Rupert Sargent