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Definition of Gawkiest
1. gawky [adj] - See also: gawky
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gawkiest
Literary usage of Gawkiest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Artemus Ward (Charles Farrar Browne): A Biography and Bibliography by Don Carlos Seitz (1919)
""I think," said Mr. Armstrong, to whom the adventurer presented himself, dusty,
shabby, and forlorn, seeking the much- needed job, "he was the gawkiest, ..."
2. Memoirs of Henry Villard, Journalist and Financier, 1835-1900 by Henry Villard (1904)
"Nor was this surprising, for they certainly saw the most unprepossessing features,
the gawkiest figure, and the most awkward manners. ..."
3. Memoirs of Henry Villard, Journalist and Financier, 1835-1900 by Henry Villard (1904)
"... for they certainly saw the most unprepossessing features, the gawkiest figure,
and the most awkward manners. Lincoln always had an embarrassed air, too, ..."
4. Memorials of the Grand River Valley by Franklin Everett (1878)
"Sly minxes they arc; they all want Obadiah, but he does not know it. lie feels
that he is the gawkiest young man of the whole, .and is awfully jealous of ..."
5. Speeches of Wendell Phillips Stafford, 1913 by Wendell Phillips Stafford (1913)
"He came to Isaac Fletcher's office at Lyndon Corner one morning to study law,—the
greenest, gawkiest lad in all these parts. With a few years of district ..."
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