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awkward | American Dictionary

awkward
adjective
us/ˈɔk·wərd/

awkwardadjective (DIFFICULT)

difficult to use, do, or deal with:
The computer came in a big box that was awkward to carry.

awkwardadjective (ANXIOUS)

causing inconvenience, anxiety, or embarrassment:
It was an awkward situation, because the restaurant was too expensive for us but we didn’t want to just get up and walk out.
Someone who feels awkward feels embarrassed or nervous:
We were the first to arrive at the party and felt a little awkward.

awkwardadjective (LACKING GRACE)

lacking grace or skill when moving:
He’s too awkward – he’ll never be a good dancer.

awkwardness

noun[ U ]us/ˈɔ·kwərd·nəs/
His awkwardness with girls disappeared once he got to college.

Examples of awkward

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Physically, the book's size is an awkward 10 inches by 7 inches.
The pronoun it might have been a bit awkward here followed by plus.
It may simply be that a sentence with two adverbs in a row is not very elegant and is stylistically awkward.
Writers have characterised some relationships as arbitrary, whimsical, awkward or confusing, yet celebrated the carefully studied asymmetry of others as an artistic tour-de-force.
For some, the bonding rituals are awkward moments that need to be negotiated by making excuses and hanging back.
It is, therefore, awkward to use improving values for algorithms like alpha-beta that use both upper and lower bounds.
This finding is awkward for the theory, but it is certainly not a fatal blow.
Words like awkward and coyote can be described as having informative beginnings, because they start with uncommon trigrams.
The opening phrases' serrated profile thematises awkward melodic disjunctures.
This awkward piece, gangling and almost painfully honest in its criticism, was, so to speak, 'disappeared'.
Some of the clients reported, however, that asking aiders to do extra could put them in an awkward position.
Furthermore, defining the branches of the polytypic function as records is somewhat awkward, and could be improved with specialized syntax.
He knew that she would find it awkward, if not unacceptable, for his subordinate to address him by his first name.
One finds it a hard go in places with awkward phrasing and incomplete editing.
This approach to debugging may seem awkward or inelegant.
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