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gawkiness

[ UK /ɡˈɔːkinəs/ ]
NOUN
  1. the carriage of someone whose movements and posture are extremely ungainly and inelegant

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  • From "Roger Dodger" to "The Squid and the Whale" to "Adventureland," the actor has been a go-to for a long line of writer/directors who see in his curly-haired gawkiness and anxiety-ridden demeanor an apt surrogate for their younger selves. Jesse Eisenberg On ‘The Social Network,’ Imagination And Playing Real People » MTV Movies Blog
  • He also had brown hair and a slightly endearing gawkiness to him - he hadn't quite grown into his very long limbs yet.
  • She's a tall actress who projects a charming gawkiness. 'Please Give': A Fine-Tuned Study Of Envy And Guilt
  • He is the one performer who can steal a scene from Ronald Reagan, and he did; as they viewed the Statue of Liberty, the visiting Communist played the self-confident superstar while Reagan ambled about like an amiable sidekick and Bush lapsed into the prenomination gawkiness that used to plague him whenever he stumbled across Reagan’s shadow. American Sketches
  • The film captures an essential truth of adolescence, its simultaneous gawkiness and glory.
  • The comparison certainly catches something of his geekiness, his gawkiness, and all those nerdy faces he pulls.
  • In the past decade, her beanpole gawkiness had turned into athletic grace, but she had the same force field of intelligence. Hi-Ya!
  • My adolescent hormones, gawkiness, acne, hair that refused to be tamed - all left me constantly on the verge of tears.
  • Despite her gawkiness she was clearly going to be a beautiful woman one day.
  • Apart from her music, I've grown accustomed to her over-expressive face, attached to her arm-flinging gawkiness. Jacob Wren reads Carl Wilson by way of a digression
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