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How to pronounce gawkiness in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms ungainliness
Type of awkwardness, clumsiness
Derivation gawky

Examples of gawkiness

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Despite his gawkiness and good grades, Babbitt was elected student body president.
From the time.com
Then she sang-and at the first note, her voice erased all the gawkiness.
From the time.com
Waller-Bridge's manic gawkiness and Morgan's chin-wobbling attempts not to blub are particularly inspired.
From the independent.co.uk
Her mastery, like Emily Dickinson's, has some awkwardness in it, some essential gawkiness that draws you close.
From the nytimes.com
Terrence Mann finds coltish gawkiness in a lumbering leviathan and suggests a new reason why the myth has endured.
From the time.com
They are also, as it happens, riddled with heartbreak and loss, and possess an essential gawkiness that, despite their wit, draws you close.
From the nytimes.com
Foster garnered high praise, over all, for conveying the character's girlish gawkiness, and for her indisputable talents as a singer and dancer.
From the nytimes.com
Some, like Mastrojannis, are just beginning to shed their adolescent gawkiness, while others, like Castello Banfi, seem close to full maturity.
From the au.news.yahoo.com
Knightley seems the most eager for mischief, although Garfield, who works in a fraught variation on teen gawkiness, is the least predictable person in the cast.
From the boston.com
At every stop on Justin's recent tour, his charisma, high energy and sweet gawkiness ignited explosions of cellphone camera flashes, glinting on orthodontia.
From the post-gazette.com
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