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  • To have traveled in one generation from fraternal solidarity to these real brothers, all city-smart and gawkish and set on their own ambitions that they are prepared even to duff in the brother.

    Miliband Vs. Miliband 2010

  • Something about him made her think of Nate when he was younger, gawkish and awkward and easily hurt.

    Clockwork Angel Cassandra Clare 2010

  • To have traveled in one generation from fraternal solidarity to these real brothers, all city-smart and gawkish and set on their own ambitions that they are prepared even to duff in the brother.

    Miliband Vs. Miliband 2010

  • Listening to a bunch of gawkish men in their twenties and thirties with speech impediments drag on for fifteen minutes who've never made a movie in their lives attempt to tear down a film that hasn't even been released in its entirety.

    Comic-Con Video Blog: Thoughts on 24 Minutes of James Cameron’s Avatar | /Film 2009

  • We use the CIA to support internal forces who stated goal was to replace Saddam which means Clinton was using the CIA to support people inside Iraq and outside Iraq who wanted to see Saddam gone …. numb nuts …. nice try at PROVING you actually really are as stupid as Nazi Ann if not the gawkish freak herself.

    Think Progress » “Public outrage, sporadic before, is growing 2006

  • It was such a ridiculous creature—round and ungainly, gawkish and risible—that its renown spread by hearsay and cartoon.

    The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

  • It was such a ridiculous creature—round and ungainly, gawkish and risible—that its renown spread by hearsay and cartoon.

    The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

  • She gazed down at herself, feeling particularly gawkish and angular in the masculine attire.

    Thief Of Hearts Medeiros, Teresa 1994

  • About sunset one day she saw a tall, gawkish boy come riding along the road, astride of one of the rough, wild, South

    Historic Boyhoods Rupert Sargent Holland 1915

  • Bridget may have been a gawk, but she did two things which were not gawkish.

    The Manxman A Novel - 1895 Hall Caine 1892

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