gawky• Despite the fact that he was tall for his age, he was gawky and skinny.• It was gawky, hesitant, and brash.• The local grammar school had put too much of a gawkyhumanedge on his son's image.• There are, of course, a few physically awkward, gawky, uncoordinateddrivers.• Not even the gawky years of adolescence would alter it.