Not elegant or graceful in expression.
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Examples for "awkward"
Examples for "awkward"
1This takes us back to the awkward problem of money and priorities.
2Which is a relatively friendly and diplomatic solution to an awkward situation.
3Today was the first time he'd seen her since that awkward introduction.
4The Director said to smooth awkward situation he would just stand around.
5The routes are awkward; the companies involved do not coordinate their efforts.
1The top bolt was within easy reach of his clumsy right paw.
2It was the crisis, and into it Mollie intruded with clumsy tread.
3Its confusion rendered it clumsy; and the mistake cost it its life.
4My work boots felt way too clumsy with their thick rubber soles.
5For a moment Powell yearned to blast this well-meaning clumsy young normal.
1Existing legislation is cumbersome, complicated and ineffective in our increasingly urban society.
2That's one way to solve the storage problem, albeit a cumbersome one.
3The structure of the proposed Public Services Standards Commission is unduly cumbersome.
4However, the interpretation of shear modulus distribution is often confusing and cumbersome.
5His enormous sea shells, cast in polished bronze, are cumbersome and costly.
1Quite another to borrow money to fund a bloated, inept, patronage-driven state.
2Back in the day, they used to be extremely hapless and inept.
3Greece's national accounts turned out to be fiction and the state inept.
4Seeking reaction from Argentinians who were so horribly inept is heavy work.
5At first, I thought it was a comment on my inept synopsis.
1Nothing had changed her mood since his uncle paid his ill-chosen visit.
2Given that the film is quite dull, that title now looks supremely ill-chosen.
3In form it seemed perfect-nota superfluous or an ill-chosen word.
4I perceived that what I had said was an ill-chosen thing.
5Reformers are apt to be pelted with epithets quite as ill-chosen.
1Grey was a charming study in sepia. The description was not inapt.
2Malcolm thought Cedric's name of Dr. Dryasdust was not an inapt title.
3Her defense was weak and inapt but she attained her object.
4So much Alaric had learnt, and had been no inapt scholar.
5Why, he fetches up all the inapt, disagreeable, and harrowing things in his life.
6The terms primary and secondary sex characteristics, though inapt, must be allowed to stand.
7In that department, however, I was, and remained, very inapt.
8To return an inapt yell would be worse than silence.
9Its Indian name, signifying 'the chosen place,' was not inapt for our meeting ground.
10It is the vice of the clodhopper, unattractive to women or inapt to court them.
11People everywhere do not blame their economic predicament on inapt administrations, or on specific leaders.
12The term "struggle for existence" is, then, not an inapt one.
13The following description {208} of a class of contemporary dramas is not wholly inapt:
14The parable is not by any means inapt.
15Neufmarché disregarded the inapt remark, even as he ignored the sharp decline evidenced in Cadwgan's appearance.
16It means "terrible lizard" and was a curiously inapt name.