gangly
Speech parts
1. gangly - Adjective
2. gangly - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
tall and thin
tall and thin and having long slender limbs
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Examples
I always thought I was sort of awkward and goofy-looking. I'm still kind of gangly.
I never really considered myself attractive. I was always kind of gangly in school.
My torso is short, but my arms are really long and gangly and my legs and my neck, and my feet and hands are really long, and I look like a duck.
I was not the most attractive child. I had two really big buck teeth. I was horrendous - long, lanky and gangly.
I was such a dork. I was too big. I was really gangly.
a gangling teenager