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Definition of gawky in English: gawkyadjectivegawkiest, gawkier ˈɡɔːkiˈɡɔki Nervously awkward and ungainly. 紧张得笨手笨脚的 一个缩手缩脚的年轻人。 Example sentencesExamples - Chris was nearly eighteen and though he was tall, filled out with spiky black hair and handsome features, he still felt awkward, gawky, and ugly.
- She constantly insisted that her height and slender limbs made her gawky and awkward, and for lack of a mirror had never seen the large blue eyes that were so captivating.
- Those who didn't know him mistook him for a gawky teenager, though in point of fact he was twenty-nine.
- He's fair-skinned and gawky while I'm bronzed and supremely athletic.
- So I went out for lunch today with a group of friends and their friends and was disturbed to find myself feeling defensive and edgy which dragged me back about ten years to gawky teenage years of perpetual embarrassment.
- Filled with uncommon self-belief and undaunted by his tall and gawky appearance, he sought out the Royal Theatre and tried to get a break as an actor, a dancer or a playwright.
- I might be the gawky gap-toothed kid who's not cool like everyone else at school, but as long as I like myself I'll be fine.
- Through binoculars they're visible at all points of the compass; gawky, fragile, birdlike skeletons of metal hauling skywards monstrous slabs of concrete and steel.
- They're essentially gawky adolescents engaged in self-discovery.
- With all the excitable glee of a slightly gawky teenager, she waves the bouquet above her head, showing it off to the rest of us like a trophy, the years visibly slipping away.
- I just wanted to be like everyone else: one of the short girls who was good at doing cartwheels, graceful and cute as a kitten as opposed to a huge gawky awkward giraffe such as myself.
- Kids are gawky and awkward enough in junior high without forcing them to wear skinny ties and ill-fitting jackets while roaming like bison through a cramped gymnasium.
- I was a horribly gawky and nervous teenager and speech did not come smoothly out of my mouth.
- He's intelligent, but gawky and socially inept, unable to communicate with anyone other than his family.
- The problem lies with the girls he chooses, as he shows a distinct preference for beautiful, if slightly gawky, younger women who aren't terribly self-confident.
- And as usual, I turned into a goofy, gawky, tongue-tied idiot.
- As a gawky, squawky teenager with no friends, desperate to distance herself from her parents, she took a part-time job in a library and devoured books, and not just the dirty ones either.
- A gawky chap with a ponytail, rarely ever seen in a suit, he wanted to be different from those tough guys at the big anonymous corporate conglomerations.
- At that time I was a gawky 18-year-old, from a small town - unused to and unaware of the big sophisticated city.
- Teenagers are known for their gawky prejudices, which tend to change once they get into the real world.
Synonyms awkward, ungainly, inelegant, graceless, ungraceful, gauche, maladroit, inept, bumbling, blundering, lumbering socially awkward, socially unsure, unpolished, unsophisticated, uncultured, uncultivated, unworldly nervous, shy, bashful British nervy
Derivativesadverb Snapping out of my stupor, I quickly turned around (hiding my by-now tomato-like face) and jammed the keys gawkily into the keyhole. Example sentencesExamples - Samuel went over to my brother and they shook hands, gawkily.
- We stood there in awkward silence, shuffling our feet gawkily like ducks do when they are hungry.
- Everybody had the impression that he molded her out of clay, although when you see her on a screen it seems impossible she was ever any different from how she is now: gawkily girlish, charmingly direct, unemphatically shrewd.
- However, Meg approached him, and gave him a big hug, while Ryan shuffled his feet gawkily, staring at them from outside his shoes.
noun They are magnificent, but they have a certain gawkiness about them. Example sentencesExamples - My adolescent hormones, gawkiness, acne, hair that refused to be tamed - all left me constantly on the verge of tears.
- The film captures an essential truth of adolescence, its simultaneous gawkiness and glory.
- He also had brown hair and a slightly endearing gawkiness to him - he hadn't quite grown into his very long limbs yet.
- In the e-mail, I thought to myself, I would explicate my apparent teenage gawkiness from the previous day as the consequence of being mortifyingly embarrassed and hapless.
Rhymesbalky, chalky, corky, Gorky, Milwaukee, pawky, porky, talkie, walkie-talkie Definition of gawky in US English: gawkyadjectiveˈɡôkēˈɡɔki Nervously awkward and ungainly. 紧张得笨手笨脚的 一个缩手缩脚的年轻人。 Example sentencesExamples - He's intelligent, but gawky and socially inept, unable to communicate with anyone other than his family.
- Chris was nearly eighteen and though he was tall, filled out with spiky black hair and handsome features, he still felt awkward, gawky, and ugly.
- The problem lies with the girls he chooses, as he shows a distinct preference for beautiful, if slightly gawky, younger women who aren't terribly self-confident.
- So I went out for lunch today with a group of friends and their friends and was disturbed to find myself feeling defensive and edgy which dragged me back about ten years to gawky teenage years of perpetual embarrassment.
- I was a horribly gawky and nervous teenager and speech did not come smoothly out of my mouth.
- She constantly insisted that her height and slender limbs made her gawky and awkward, and for lack of a mirror had never seen the large blue eyes that were so captivating.
- He's fair-skinned and gawky while I'm bronzed and supremely athletic.
- Through binoculars they're visible at all points of the compass; gawky, fragile, birdlike skeletons of metal hauling skywards monstrous slabs of concrete and steel.
- Those who didn't know him mistook him for a gawky teenager, though in point of fact he was twenty-nine.
- I might be the gawky gap-toothed kid who's not cool like everyone else at school, but as long as I like myself I'll be fine.
- As a gawky, squawky teenager with no friends, desperate to distance herself from her parents, she took a part-time job in a library and devoured books, and not just the dirty ones either.
- Filled with uncommon self-belief and undaunted by his tall and gawky appearance, he sought out the Royal Theatre and tried to get a break as an actor, a dancer or a playwright.
- At that time I was a gawky 18-year-old, from a small town - unused to and unaware of the big sophisticated city.
- They're essentially gawky adolescents engaged in self-discovery.
- A gawky chap with a ponytail, rarely ever seen in a suit, he wanted to be different from those tough guys at the big anonymous corporate conglomerations.
- And as usual, I turned into a goofy, gawky, tongue-tied idiot.
- Teenagers are known for their gawky prejudices, which tend to change once they get into the real world.
- I just wanted to be like everyone else: one of the short girls who was good at doing cartwheels, graceful and cute as a kitten as opposed to a huge gawky awkward giraffe such as myself.
- Kids are gawky and awkward enough in junior high without forcing them to wear skinny ties and ill-fitting jackets while roaming like bison through a cramped gymnasium.
- With all the excitable glee of a slightly gawky teenager, she waves the bouquet above her head, showing it off to the rest of us like a trophy, the years visibly slipping away.
Synonyms awkward, ungainly, inelegant, graceless, ungraceful, gauche, maladroit, inept, bumbling, blundering, lumbering
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