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At the time, Watson was an arrogant, gawky 22-year-old, working as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Copenhagen.
ONE OF THE MOST EGREGIOUS RIPOFFS IN THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE - ISSUE 107: THE EDGEKEVIN BERGEROCTOBER 20, 2021NAUTILUSThe young lady, a gawky girl of 13, was a distant cousin whose father had recently become King Emperor.
HOW PRINCE PHILIP BECAME QUEEN ELIZABETH'S UNLIKELY HUSBANDLILY ROTHMANAPRIL 9, 2021TIMEHe was reminded of the flight of time only by the growth of his son—a gawky, long-limbed boy.
THE PIONEERSKATHARINE SUSANNAH PRICHARDMediocrity had only seen the gawky stripling, with his moonstruck air, and pestilent habit of trying some new crotchet.
HEROES OF THE TELEGRAPHJ. MUNROIt sets up a gawky fellow to find a girl who ain't ashamed to be seen walking with him Sundays.
TALES OF MEN AND GHOSTSEDITH WHARTONThree big, gawky helmet-headed beetles next followed, bearing rice-sprouts, with full heads of rice.
JAPANESE FAIRY WORLDWILLIAM ELLIOT GRIFFISBut who would ever have imagined that that gawky shock-headed American boy had really got so much romance in him!
BABYLON, VOLUME 2 (OF 3)GRANT ALLENThe niece, rustic and gawky; the companion sour and frumpish.
MOUNT ROYAL, VOLUME 1 OF 3MARY ELIZABETH BRADDONA frowsy, rat-faced woman and a gawky youth of fourteen stuck their heads out the doorway at either side of the man.
THE OAKDALE AFFAIREDGAR RICE BURROUGHSYou're ugly and gawky enough, Dave, but no evil angel of temptation was ever so compelling as you.
A TOP-FLOOR IDYLGEORGE VAN SCHAICKWORDS RELATED TO GAWKY
- all thumbs
- amateurish
- artless
- blundering
- bulky
- bumbling
- bungling
- butterfingers
- coarse
- floundering
- gawky
- graceless
- green
- having two left feet
- having two left hands
- incompetent
- inept
- inexpert
- klutzy
- lumbering
- maladroit
- oafish
- rude
- stiff
- stumbling
- uncoordinated
- uncouth
- unfit
- ungainly
- ungraceful
- unhandy
- unpolished
- unrefined
- unskilled
- unskillful
- all thumbs
- blundering
- blunderous
- bulky
- bumbling
- bungling
- butterfingered
- clownish
- crude
- elephantine
- gauche
- gawkish
- gawky
- graceless
- ham-handed
- heavy
- heavy-handed
- helpless
- hulking
- ill-shaped
- incompetent
- inelegant
- inept
- inexperienced
- inexpert
- lubberly
- lumbering
- lumpish
- maladroit
- oafish
- ponderous
- splay
- stumbling
- unable
- unadept
- uncoordinated
- uncouth
- undexterous
- uneasy
- ungainly
- unhandy
- unskillful
- untactful
- untalented
- untoward
- unwieldy
- weedy
- all thumbs
- amateurish
- artless
- blundering
- bulky
- bumbling
- bungling
- butterfingers
- clumsy
- coarse
- floundering
- gawky
- graceless
- green
- having two left feet
- having two left hands
- incompetent
- inept
- inexpert
- lumbering
- lumpish
- maladroit
- oafish
- rude
- stiff
- stumbling
- uncoordinated
- uncouth
- unfit
- ungainly
- ungraceful
- unhandy
- unpolished
- unrefined
- unskilled
- unskillful
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.