gawky

How to use gawky in a sentence

At the time, Watson was an arrogant, gawky 22-year-old, working as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Copenhagen.

The young lady, a gawky girl of 13, was a distant cousin whose father had recently become King Emperor.

He was reminded of the flight of time only by the growth of his son—a gawky, long-limbed boy.

THE PIONEERSKATHARINE SUSANNAH PRICHARD

Mediocrity had only seen the gawky stripling, with his moonstruck air, and pestilent habit of trying some new crotchet.

It sets up a gawky fellow to find a girl who ain't ashamed to be seen walking with him Sundays.

Three big, gawky helmet-headed beetles next followed, bearing rice-sprouts, with full heads of rice.

JAPANESE FAIRY WORLDWILLIAM ELLIOT GRIFFIS

But who would ever have imagined that that gawky shock-headed American boy had really got so much romance in him!

The niece, rustic and gawky; the companion sour and frumpish.

A 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 BURROUGHS

You're ugly and gawky enough, Dave, but no evil angel of temptation was ever so compelling as you.

A TOP-FLOOR IDYLGEORGE VAN SCHAICK

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985