[
UK
/ɡˈæŋli/
]
[ US /ˈɡæŋɫi/ ]
[ US /ˈɡæŋɫi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- tall and thin
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tall and thin and having long slender limbs
a lanky kid transformed almost overnight into a handsome young man
a gangling teenager
How To Use gangly In A Sentence
- I put my arm through his, and waved too, and they laughed at the sight of two gangly teenagers travelling in a trolley.
- He stood just an inch or two above the other boys his age and was by no means skinny or gangly.
- Jonathan Johansson (Frolunda Jrs.) — It's stunning how much his overall game has developed in the last six months since we saw him as a gangly checker last April at the U-18 world championships. Swede, Californian impress at recent tournament
- That gangly sack of shit, third from the front. He'll be first.
- As the band roared on, the grass filled with fresh faced young people pogoing in cheerful, gangly fun as if at a church teen party.
- Even he himself could not even begin to imagine, his gangly frame, messy unsettled jet black hair gleaming, his green eyes shining, his huge elephant skin like clothes bagging off of him.
- How lovely and strange the gangly spires of trees against a thickening sky as you drive from the library humming off-key?
- He's so awkward and gangly, which often leads to him being penalised. Times, Sunday Times
- Reflects Meyers: ‘Orwell's austere, dour, spartan and ascetic character as well as his tall, gangly figure was more Scottish than English.’
- I even pulled some low-key gangly whiteboy moves out of the repertoire for good measure.