Meanings of ask awkward in English

Stephen Hunter is a Cork conservationist who likes to ask awkward questions.

Sometimes journalists stake her out and snatch a picture or ask awkward questions.

He knows now that he can ask awkward questions about Jenny, his mum.

People would ask awkward questions, and she expected some organized opposition.

Also, I won't come to your meetings and ask awkward questions.

On crucial occasions Clare was prepared to ask awkward questions of the party commissars.

Patriots were inclined to congregate about the Lion d'Or and to ask awkward questions.

Who will investigate a car accident and ask awkward questions about the maintenance of the roads?

But most likely they would ask awkward questions.

Now, with royal ownership and no shareholders to ask awkward questions, the bank became less controllable.

Forgive me, I don't normally try to ask awkward questions, but this time I just can't help my curiosity.

No one in government wanted to ask awkward questions about ballooning debt and obscene bonuses that incentivised ever more reckless bets.

For the first time, foreigners didn't ask awkward questions about the war, but complimented us on our hospitality and the beauty of our cities.

Photo: Steve Bolton So my brother and I went to Sunday school and church weekly, until we were old enough to ask awkward questions.

It is clear that Eliot would have preferred to live in a society in which it was not even possible to ask awkward spiritual questions.

Her brothers had called her about it, asking awkward, worried questions.