‘gangly’ is a correct and usable word in written English.
It can be used to describe someone or something that is tall and thin and is often awkward and ungainly in their movements. For example, “He was an awkward, gangly teenager.”.
Who knows, it might just do for now, or at least it might do better than lying around looking like a sad, gangly lion being forced to sit down to tea with a ruff around its neck.
Nothing symbolised this more than the coach's failure to pick Ronaldo, then a gangly 17-year-old striker who watched the tournament from the substitute's bench.
Thin, quick and gangly, he would have made a perfect third baseman, a position requiring lightning reflexes and no time to think.In the line he chose, however close argument Mr Rawls was a slow mover.
The gangly man on the stage has the power to forgive past sins and unite a house that has been divided.But the promise of "transformation" that so excited the voters in Iowa was clearly not enough in New Hampshire.
Mr Obama looks too frail to bear the weight of all the expectations that have been loaded upon him like a gangly graduate student rather than a political titan.
He might leave no mark behind, as "common men" tended not to, but he had lent his boyish effort to wider collective ends: tall, ugly, gangly and mostly solitary, marching in the Berlin snow, stuffing leaflets into letterboxes, against a background of looming cataclysm.Above and beneath all, he was a romantic.
Mrs Loving had known him since she was 11 and he was 17, a gangly white boy who took her out for years and did the decent thing when he got her pregnant, by asking her to marry him.
Miriam, a gangly girl from Benin, is drinking beer in the afternoon.
As a gangly, enthusiastic teenager he invaded Poland with the Wehrmacht as part of the 9th Potsdam, an elite Prussian infantry regiment.
Tall, gangly, big-footed Olive Oyl, whose black hair was almost always tied back in a bun, first co-starred with her brother, Castor Oyl, in 1919 in the newspaper comic strip Thimble Theatre.
