Antonyms for gawkiness
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : gaw-kee |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈgɔ ki |
Definition of gawkiness
Origin :- "awkward, ungainly," 1724, from gawk hand "left hand" (1703), perhaps a contraction of gaulick, thus "gaulish hand," derogatory slang that could have originated during some period of strained Anglo-French relations, i.e. most of recorded history.
- As in awkwardness : noun clumsiness; inelegance
- As in artlessness : noun unskillfulness
- But in place of gawkiness and grunts, the golden virtue of silence, and the conscious pride of natural dignity.
- Extract from : « Islam Her Moral And Spiritual Value » by Arthur Glyn Leonard
- It's "raw-bone" and gawkiness has swept things before it, and has built up great things in all times.
- Extract from : « How to Read Human Nature » by William Walker Atkinson
- And it was only a certain gaucherie, a gawkiness on Anna's part that irritated her against the girl.
- Extract from : « The Rainbow » by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
- How a young lover made ridiculous by the gawkiness of modern costume must envy the picturesque gallants of seventy years ago!
- Extract from : « Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow » by Jerome K. Jerome
- In another year he would doubtless lose all his gawkiness and become quite a gallant.
- Extract from : « A Love Episode » by Emile Zola
Synonyms for gawkiness
- amateurishness
- artlessness
- awkwardness
- boorishness
- cloddishness
- clumsiness
- coarseness
- crudeness
- gawkiness
- gracelessness
- greenness
- ignorance
- inability
- incompetence
- inelegance
- ineptitude
- ineptness
- inexpertness
- maladroitness
- oafishness
- rudeness
- tactlessness
- uncoordination
- uncouthness
- ungainliness
- unskillfulness
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