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Crumb’s gawky, eccentric persona was first revealed to the wider public in a 1994 documentary made by his friend Terry Zwigoff, which portrays the cartoonist with all of his incongruities.—Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 14 Apr. 2025 Take it from a film critic: Even gawky beta nerds get smothered by their own internalized masculinity.—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 10 Apr. 2025 Brittany Murphy, who co-starred as gawky new kid Tai, sadly passed away in 2009.—Dave Nemetz, TVLine, 17 Apr. 2025 A far cry from the gawky and boyish Norman Bates, B.Z. is a floppy-haired, closeted Hollywood player slowly dissolving in his own nihilism.—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 7 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for gawky
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