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awkward
adjective as in clumsy, inelegant
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all thumbs, artless, blundering, bulky, bumbling, bungling, butterfingers, coarse, floundering, gawky, graceless, green, having two left feet, having two left hands, incompetent, inept, inexpert, klutzy, lumbering, maladroit, oafish, stumbling, uncoordinated, uncouth, unfit, ungainly, ungraceful, unhandy, unpolished, unrefined, unskilled, unskillful
adjective as in difficult to handle
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annoying, cumbersome, dangerous, inconvenient, perilous, risky, troublesome, uncomfortable, unwieldy
Weak matches
bulky, chancy, cramped, disagreeable, discommodious, hard to use, hazardous, incommodious, unhandy, unmanageable
adjective as in embarrassing
Strongest matches
delicate, difficult, embarrassed, inconvenient, painful, ticklish, troublesome, uncomfortable, unpleasant
Weak matches
compromising, ill at ease, inopportune, perplexing, sticky, thorny, trying, untimely
Example Sentences
He felt awkward, but his teachers joked, “You missed me already?”
Paired with a third door off the kitchen, the home’s entrance to the backyard was awkward at best.
Park’s graphic elegance may be at odds with the awkward, idle indignities depicted onscreen, but the discrepancy between the two generates an edge-of-your-seat tension.
“It’s kind of awkward how the fees are collected,” he said.
It could be a slightly awkward reunion for Tuchel and Bellingham for this camp, too.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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