What is "gawkiness"

Usage examples of "gawkiness".

She was a matchstick sketch of the woman she would become, her coltish gawkiness relieved only by her enormous solemn eyes and the pixie beauty of her thin smudged features.

Combined with her tall gawkiness, it hardly made her the sort of woman men longed for.

Because she was tall and lean unto gawkiness, with big hands and bony shoulders and a body that, although it had decent dimensions, couldn't seem to assemble itself gracefully, they somehow thought her to be unsophisticated in a charming way, perhaps even someone to be protected, as her father always had.

His posture had a limp, decentralized sloppiness, as if in defiance of his tall, slender body, a body with an elegance of line intended for the confident poise of an aristocrat, but transformed into the gawkiness of a lout.

For all his gawkiness, he moved with the light, random swiftness of a water strider on a hot day.

They were, he guessed from their gawkiness and lack of adult proportionings, still somewhere in preadolescence, dark-haired and oliveskinned like their parents.