Gangling
Gangling adjective - Being tall, thin and usually loose-jointed.
Little
Little adjective - Having relatively little height.
Usage example: there was a little hedge separating the two lawns
Nearby Word: littleness
Both words in one sentence
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While Nessy is charitable enough to acknowledge that his unclad body might be attractive to his own species, to her it's just comical: gangling and clumsy-looking, with absurd little patches of fur scattered arbitrarily around his otherwise-bald frame.
Source: Humans Through Alien Eyes
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