Crossword-Solution: GAWKY
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Gawky | superl. | Foolish and awkward; clumsy; clownish; as, gawky behavior. -- n. A fellow who is awkward from being overgrown, or from stupidity, a gawk. |
We have 83 clues for the answer “GAWKY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| lacking grace in movement or posture | 1 answer |
| Clunky and ungraceful | 1 answer |
| Far from graceful | 1 answer |
| gawkish | 1 answer |
| Nervously clumsy | 1 answer |
| Nervously awkward | 1 answer |
| Lacking gracefulness. | 1 answer |
| Hardly graceful | 2 answers |
| butterfingered | 6 answers |
| AN UNWIELDY LARGENESS | 7 answers |
| LACKING grace | 7 answers |
| lumpish | 13 answers |
| Lubberly | 13 answers |
| Goofy | 20 answers |
| rusty | 21 answers |
| Featherbrained | 21 answers |
| lumbering | 22 answers |
| splay | 22 answers |
| doltish | 22 answers |
| Embarrassing | 23 answers |
| all thumbs | 23 answers |
| besotted | 24 answers |
| Maladroit | 28 answers |
| Halting | 31 answers |
| retarded | 37 answers |
| Ga-ga | 39 answers |
| Clownish | 39 answers |
| Asinine | 40 answers |
| Gangling | 44 answers |
| infantile | 49 answers |
| out of your depth | 50 answers |
| discomforted | 53 answers |
| blundering | 53 answers |
| cumbersome | 53 answers |
| youngish | 55 answers |
| ungraceful | 55 answers |
| ill at ease | 56 answers |
| unprofessional | 58 answers |
| Uncontaminated | 59 answers |
| Unworldly | 59 answers |
| Nutty | 60 answers |
| Untainted | 60 answers |
| Uncorrupted | 61 answers |
| Unsullied | 61 answers |
| Gullible | 61 answers |
| innocuous | 61 answers |
| Ungainly | 61 answers |
| trusting | 62 answers |
| guiltless | 62 answers |
| Unskilled | 62 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with GAWKY (5)
The boy had looked like a gawky, and blushed at a compliment; I could see besides that he regarded me with considerable suspicion; yet he made so manly a figure of a lad, that I could not withhold from him my sympathy.
You shall have the militia.” He rang a bell and sent his steward for the captain, a gawky country farmer, who gave a gasp when he came upon the scene in the hall.
During his senior year, while checking out some of the other student projects an hour before the science fair, Peter met two gawky fellows who had built a device they called the All-In-One Computer.
And the inhabitants of Hamel began to go to the dogs (not that _they_ were of much use), when one Friday there arrived in the town a man with a queer face, who played the bagpipes and sang this refrain: ‘Qui vivra verra: Le voilà, Le preneur des rats.’ He was a great gawky fellow, dry and bronzed, with a crooked nose, a long rat-tail moustache, two great yellow piercing and mocking eyes, under a large felt hat set off by a scarlet cock’s feather.
From these I was recalled by one of the officers, Lieutenant Hector Duncansby, a gawky, leering Highland boy, asking if my name was not “Palfour.” I told him it was, not very kindly, for his manner was scant civil.
Quotes with GAWKY (3)
Just like that. From a hundred miles an hour to asleep in a nanosecond. I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not f*ck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together, in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bo…
Language is not the lowborn, gawky servant of thought and feeling; it is need, thought, feeling, and perception itself. The shape of sentences, the song in its syllables, the rhythm of its movement, is the movement of the imagination.
Put away these frozenjawed primates and their annals of ways beset and ultimate dark. What deity in the realms of dementia, what rabid god decocted out of the smoking lobes of hydrophobia could have devised a keeping place for souls so poor as is this flesh. This gawky wormbent tabernacle.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, NYT, Universal, WSJ.
Used 15 times in crossword archives (1954–2024).