gawky

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• Since I was an awkward teenager who was built like a twig with hips and growing out a perm from the part of the '90s that wouldn't let the' 80s die, you can imagine how excellent things like stretch jeans -- now called "jeggings" -- looked on my gawky, unevenly developing frame. Jamie Frevele: A Second Chance at the '90s!
• Two gawky, pimply, vaguely punky teenage guys are talking to two gawky, pimply, vaguely punky teenage girls.
• The new computer model has sloped geeky shoulders and a long gawky neck.
• Are you prepared to wait while a gawky young subject grows to maturity and the stature your composition requires? The Education of a Gardener
• 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.
• Lee is full of adolescent pride - gawky, gormless and increasingly angry.
• Elle magazine, whose then editor, Sally Brampton, later recalled the gawky teenager as Mail & Guardian Online
• And as usual, I turned into a goofy, gawky, tongue-tied idiot.
• 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.
• 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.