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Adjective(1) tall and thin and having long slender limbs(2) tall and thin(3) ungracefully tall and thin(4) gangling

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(1) She was a gawky, gangly teenager, her teeth in rail-track braces, on only her second trip to the capital.(2) The imbalance gives her a rangy look, slightly adolescent, gangly rather than sleek.(3) His best friend was Paul, a gangly bespectacled individual, and his best girl was the feisty Winnie, who lived over the road.(4) Whirling back a decade ago, he was the shy, gangly teenager, who used to shed tears at training sessions because he was homesick.(5) She pulled him behind a large tree and peered out, just in time to see three gangly looking teenagers walk past, talking loudly.(6) If it fits and is well cut, the tailcoat can turn any man - short or gangly , fat or lanky - into an Adonis.(7) There's a reason Mitchell, a skinny, gangly sophomore, looked like him.(8) He stood just an inch or two above the other boys his age and was by no means skinny or gangly .(9) A gangly group of teen boys in Japan decide to start a synchronized swimming team.(10) I put my arm through his, and waved too, and they laughed at the sight of two gangly teenagers travelling in a trolley.(11) I am far more nervous than they are and there are quite a few laughs when they see this gangly fellow mixed in with them.(12) Looking almost as young and lean as he did a decade ago, he is astonishingly convincing as a gangly teenager who has the world on a string.(13) He heaves a great gangly shrug and has some more cake.(14) The door creaked open slowly, and a tall, gangly boy with a madly bobbing Adam's apple made his way into the room.(15) By her own admission, she was a gangly , gawky youngster who hated school and struggled to do well academically.(16) The light in the room shifted dramatically as the image of the boy was replaced by a thin, gangly man holding a can of cola.
Synonyms
Adjective
1. lanky
2. gangling


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