gawky

The two know each other from grade school years earlier but hadn’t been friends, and now they’re gawky teenagers practiced in the supreme virtue of adolescence, which is to be cool.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

He said the teenager came across as an "unremarkable, sullen, untalkative, gawky teenage boy" during their sessions together.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2025

Moreover, the script transitions him, through Finan’s effective performance, from a gawky, bespectacled nerd putting on airs, into an unctuous political predator.

From Salon ● Nov. 14, 2024

When he arrived on the scene with the Mariners as a rookie three years later, it was his teammates who were curious — curious about what the heck this gawky 6-foot-6 rookie was doing.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 24, 2024

She probably feels too tall and gawky, not realizing how beautiful everyone knows she is.

From "I Am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak

The gawkier sibling to its better-known predecessor, Giordano’s “Andrea Chénier,” “Fedora” is not a perfect piece.

From New York Times ● Jan. 1, 2023

He is gawkier, with an almost formal reserve.

From New York Times ● Jan. 11, 2021

It did seem funny driving off with him, for when I came to think of it, I was never alone with a man before; but he was gawkier about it than I was.

From Set in Silver by Williamson, A. M. (Alice Muriel)

Yet Mitch refuses to forget the article, like a supermodel carting around her gawkiest middle-school photo as if to keep herself in check.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 21, 2018

He was seventeen years old when he entered college and was one of the "gawkiest" students.

From Thomas Jefferson, a Character Sketch by Ellis, Edward Sylvester

On the morning of the muster, there appeared before the tall Lieutenant, a man full three inches taller, and famous in his county as the gawkiest, slab-sidest, homeliest, best-natured fellow in the State.

From The Victim A romance of the Real Jefferson Davis by Dixon, Thomas