Sentence example with the word 'gawky'

gawky

all thumbs, bumbling, clumsy-fisted, fumbling, graceless, inelegant, left-hand, maladroit, scrawny, spindling, twiggy, unhandy

Definition adj. lacking grace in movement or posture

Last update: August 23, 2015


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He has a gawky way of talking.   [adjective]

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Peyton McKenzie is a shy, gawky teenager, living with her widowed father, when her cousin Nora comes for a visit.   [adjective]

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Tall, gawky with hair dyed blue-black and contacts that glowed red like his eyes did naturally, she wore a I heart Xander T-shirt beneath a leather coat.   [adjective]

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This request I complied with, beginning at the adventure of Gawky, and relating every particular event in which I had been concerned from that day to the present hour.   [adjective]

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I demanded a parley: and having assured him of my pacific disposition, Gawky exclaimed, "Ah, villain."   [adjective]

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Gawky) you have too easily entered into the sentiments of your husband.   [adjective]

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Then going down stairs, I met Lavement coming up trembling with the pestle in his hand, and Gawky behind armed with his sword, pushing him forward.   [adjective]

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Gawky, after having observed that she never had a good opinion of my fidelity, proposed to have me carried before the justice and committed to Newgate immediately.   [adjective]

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I had once saved Gawky's life, by plunging into a river and dragging him on shore, when he was on the point of being drowned.   [adjective]

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On my return, I met my comrade, Squire Gawky, whom his father had sent, some time ago, to town, for his improvement in writing, dancing, fencing, and other modish qualifications.   [adjective]

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Lipoti Virag, basilicogrammate, chutes rapidly down through the chimneyflue and struts two steps to the left on gawky pink stilts.   [adjective]

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