Awkwardness vs Gangly - What's the difference?
awkwardness | gangly |
The state or quality of being awkward; clumsiness; unskillfulness.
The quality of an embarrassing situation.
Tall and thin, especially so as to cause physical awkwardness.
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* 2007 , Oswald J. Schmitz, Ecology and Ecosystem Conservation? , page 34
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As a noun awkwardness
is the state or quality of being awkward; clumsiness; unskillfulness.As an adjective gangly is
tall and thin, especially so as to cause physical awkwardness.awkwardness
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Alternative forms
* aukwardness (obsolete)Noun
(es)Synonyms
* clunkiness * clumsiness * ineptness, ineptitude * inelegancegangly
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Adjective
(er)- I should have shot that long gangly lubber they called Hank, if I could have done it without crippling six or seven other people—but of course I couldn't
- A rangy, gangly , Scandinavian youth of a sailor, droop-shouldered, six feet six and slender as a lath, with pallid eyes of palest blue and skin and hair attuned to the same colour scheme, joined Kwaque in his work.
- Individuals of this rabbit species tend to be very large (about the size of a beagle dog); they have long ears and long, gangly legs and a very thin fur coats.
citation, page= , passage=[Peter Crouch] The gangly striker played a one-two with Jermaine Pennant as the winger cut in from the right, and although Pennant easily jinked past centre-half Brede Hangeland, he shot narrowly wide of the far post.}}