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  • noun The state or condition of being gangly.

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Examples

  • Arthur's a bike messenger - long lean musculature that only seems like gangliness because he's irrepressibly silly.

    Odin's Day ellyssian 2009

  • Whether it's Layton's moustache, Harper's hair mea culpa, a kinder, gentler Mussolini in a sweater-vest, or Dion's gangliness, this stuff counts bigtime.

    Archive 2008-10-01 2008

  • I defied the stereotype of being fat and sweaty and was, instead, undesirable because of my gangliness.

    Chicken Soup for the Soul: Teens Talk Middle School Jack Canfield 2008

  • I was joyful that I had finally found a sport where gangliness prevailed; the high jump, where the objective was to barrel up to and leap over a bar.

    Chicken Soup for the Soul: Teens Talk Middle School Jack Canfield 2008

  • I was joyful that I had finally found a sport where gangliness prevailed; the high jump, where the objective was to barrel up to and leap over a bar.

    Chicken Soup for the Soul: Teens Talk Middle School Jack Canfield 2008

  • Whether it's Layton's moustache, Harper's hair mea culpa, a kinder, gentler Mussolini in a sweater-vest, or Dion's gangliness, this stuff counts bigtime.

    Hell hath no fury... 2008

  • This picture makes me think of a small mirrored room, of the smell of talcum and feet, of flailing gangliness and the burgeoning knowledge that some people are just not cut out for rhythm.

    blog: June 2008 2008

  • He picks up speed and seems to lose his gangliness, the slouchy funk of hormones and unbelonging and all the stammering things that seal his adolescence.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • This picture makes me think of a small mirrored room, of the smell of talcum and feet, of flailing gangliness and the burgeoning knowledge that some people are just not cut out for rhythm.

    blog: 2008

  • I defied the stereotype of being fat and sweaty and was, instead, undesirable because of my gangliness.

    Chicken Soup for the Soul: Teens Talk Middle School Jack Canfield 2008

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