Another word for gangly | Synonyms for gangly

Another word for gangly

adjective

Tall, thin, and awkwardly built:

gangling, lanky, rangy, spindling, spindly. See fat

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Royce snorted, unfolding his tall gangly frame from the ground.
He walked with a slight limp and his gaunt frame was gangly.
She wasn't sure what she expected when she faced him, but it wasn't the gangly young man with large, uncertain brown eyes.
The gangly youth before him had dyed his hair from platinum back to its natural color of black.
"My brother's son, the cousin of Vara," Hilden said, motioning to a gangly youth with Vara's green eyes.

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