(superl.) Foolish and awkward; clumsy; clownish; as, gawky behavior. -- n. A fellow who is awkward from being overgrown, or from stupidity, a gawk.
Example Sentences:
(1) But later, by the time he was selling out theatres for his live shows, that gawky guile and snotty cheek had morphed into relentless anxiety and slapstick self-consciousness.
(2) But the gawky Furth, who specialised in nervous, oddball characters, began to get lots of work on television at the beginning of the 60s, something which continued into the 90s.
(3) One thing you'll soon realise is that this new generation of superstar YouTubers are not just gawky kids sitting in their bedrooms with a webcam.
(4) He’s not really gawky, although he will laugh his way through anything.
(5) Core team Groomed, drilled and polished by a team of advisers, including former TV producer Thea Rogers, the chancellor has replaced the squeaky-voiced gawkiness of his early days in the job with a carefully constructed image.
(6) He has all of Maguire's innate intelligence and endearing gawky awkwardness, as well as one crucial advantage over his predecessor – as a former gymnast, Garfield can do his own backflips.
(7) What delights the women most is anyone with a “past”, and when this gawky, evangelical new girl confesses that she “thinks” she is married, but isn’t quite sure, they draw closer and hold their breath.
(8) The good news is that she dances far better than that gawky teen shuffle of "Joe le Taxi"; the bad news is that… well, there's no bad news.
(9) She seems gawky and guileless, a galumphing work in progress; “more goose than swan” in the view of New York Times critic AO Scott .
(10) Then in 1968 he met Gates, another gawky kid who was also spending all his free time hunched over the school's first computer, an ASR-33 Teletype model .
(11) He is joined at the podium by director Danny Boyle; by gawky Dev Patel, preening Freida Pinto and by the pint-sized child actors flown out from Mumbai to attend the event.
Pawky
Definition:
(a.) Arch; cunning; sly.
Example Sentences:
(1) When my floor was dirty, I rose early, and, setting all my furniture out of doors on the grass, bed and bedstead making but one budget, dashed water on the floor, and sprinkled white sand from the pond on it, and then with a broom scrubbed it clean and white... Further - and this is a stroke of his sensitive, pawky genius - he contemplates his momentarily displaced furniture and the nuance of enchanting strangeness: It was pleasant to see my whole household effects out on the grass, making a little pile like a gypsy's pack, and my three-legged table, from which I did not remove the books and pen and ink, standing amid the pines and hickories ...
(2) He also travelled the country in a one-man show of reminiscences, full of pawky anecdotage and even the occasional song.