Gawky

"Gawky" was certainly the last thing that he was, but it was a nice queer word, and it helped him a great deal.

Fortitude Hugh Walpole 1912

Mr Gove did a little comedy turn about the Labour leadership candidates in which he dubbed David Miliband, Ed Miliband and Ed Balls as "Geeky", "Gawky" and "Grumpy".

It's still all smiles at the top, but there's rumbling down below 2010

Gawky and insecure and living in that uncomfortable space between childhood and adolescence, my summer started as usual with bikes and pool parties and running in the woods.

Val Brown: Woodstock Nation: Where Were You (Or Your Parents) During the Summer of "69? 2009

Gawky high school student Jess makes a wish that she could look ten years older - then wakes up to find she's miraculously become an obscure actress-model-whatever who looks like a jaded escort girl pushing 30.

Shite, Camera, Action juliette 2009

Gawky high school student Jess makes a wish that she could look ten years older - then wakes up to find she's miraculously become an obscure actress-model-whatever who looks like a jaded escort girl pushing 30.

Archive 2009-06-01 juliette 2009

Gawky: Michael's evasiveness, however, is not simply a matter of manipulating images to create a marketable mystique.

The Tour, The Money, The Magic 2009

Gawky and skinny, with tousled hair under a baseball cap, Mr. Li looked like the provincial Chinese youth he was.

Why Yundi Li Got Cut 2008

Nugent, politically known as Squire Gawky, had come out strenuously for colonial taxation; had been selected for a lordship of the board of trade, and raised to the rank of Baron Nugent and Viscount

The Life of Oliver Goldsmith 2004

Gawky, who by this time had got a lieutenancy in the army, and such

The Adventures of Roderick Random 2004

Gawky, the one obliged a valuable lodger, and the other acquired a husband at a juncture when one was absolutely necessary.

The Adventures of Roderick Random 2004