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- adjective
superlative form ofgawky : mostgawky .
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Examples
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He was seventeen years old when he entered college and was one of the "gawkiest" students.
Thomas Jefferson, a Character Sketch Edward Sylvester Ellis 1878
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"The Sturdevant version of slumming it," Michael said as he studied one of the photographs, which she noted was one that showed her at her gawkiest, next to her gorgeous sister.
Lawman Lover Dawson, Saranne 1999
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On the morning of the muster, there appeared before the tall Lieutenant, a man full three inches taller, and famous in his county as the gawkiest, slab-sidest, homeliest, best-natured fellow in the State.
The Victim A romance of the Real Jefferson Davis Thomas Dixon 1905
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