(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.
Ungainly
Definition:
(a.) Not gainly; not expert or dexterous; clumsy; awkward; uncouth; as, an ungainly strut in walking.
(a.) Unsuitable; unprofitable.
(adv.) In an ungainly manner.
Example Sentences:
(1) Apart from its brightly striped beak, the bird is well-known for its ungainly walk and longevity.
(2) The problem is it’s an ugly, ungainly shared experience.
(3) The ungainly Chinook (in nature, either a kind of wind or a Native American people) is a particular favourite.
(4) This ungainly hulk was miraculously granted permission by Southwark council's planning committee, who described it as "dynamic" and "dramatic", no doubt wooed by the architect's claims that the form was "inspired by the literary heritage" of the borough.
(5) The ungainly spectacle of a US state desperately seeking a supply of pharmaceutical in order to kill a man provides a snapshot of the dire condition of the death penalty in many of the 32 states that still practice it.
(6) It was often ungainly, and Klinsmann would probably prefer decent defensive anticipation to decent recovery, but for the first 45 Turkey went no closer than a low Caner Erkin shot in the 11th minute that hit the side netting after the USA failed to clear their lines properly from a corner.
(7) Womens Wear Daily 's correspondent was more specific, and less charitable – she saw "an ugly, ungainly, overgrown boy with thick glasses, and so horribly shy he couldn't take his eyes off the floor".
(8) The Volkswagen emissions scandal explained Read more To British eyes, the way Germany companies are structured looks a bit ungainly.
(9) It will no doubt be objected that the sequence of the big machine becomes tedious, and that in construction the film is somewhat ungainly.
(10) 7.59pm GMT 14 min: Arsenal can be grateful for Alaba’s honesty: he could easily have gone down just now as Sagna made an ungainly challenge on him in the box but instead the Austrian stayed on his feet and hammered a low cross into the six-yard area, where Arsenal scooped it clear.
(11) Rawls was not an especially gifted stylist, and A Theory Of Justice is a long and ungainly book.
(12) Guy de Maupassant, the short-story writer, called it a "giant ungainly skeleton ... which just peters out into a ridiculous thin shape like a factory chimney".
(13) You write: "Unclothed, truth can be vulnerable, ungainly, shocking.
(14) Blackadder Your brain would make a grain of sand look large and ungainly and the part of you that can't be mentioned I am reliably informed by women around the court wouldn't be worth mentioning even if it could be.
(15) It is suggested that, due to the importance of this syndrome, it may be an appropriate time to reconsider the use of "mucosal disease virus" to replace the ungainly name "BVDV".