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Meanings of ill-chosen in English
Not elegant or graceful in expression.
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Examples for "awkward"
Examples for "awkward"
1
This takes us back to the awkward problem of money and priorities.
2
Which is a relatively friendly and diplomatic solution to an awkward situation.
3
Today was the first time he'd seen her since that awkward introduction.
4
The Director said to smooth awkward situation he would just stand around.
5
The routes are awkward; the companies involved do not coordinate their efforts.
1
The top bolt was within easy reach of his clumsy right paw.
2
It was the crisis, and into it Mollie intruded with clumsy tread.
3
Its confusion rendered it clumsy; and the mistake cost it its life.
4
My work boots felt way too clumsy with their thick rubber soles.
5
For a moment Powell yearned to blast this well-meaning clumsy young normal.
1
Existing legislation is cumbersome, complicated and ineffective in our increasingly urban society.
2
That's one way to solve the storage problem, albeit a cumbersome one.
3
The structure of the proposed Public Services Standards Commission is unduly cumbersome.
4
However, the interpretation of shear modulus distribution is often confusing and cumbersome.
5
His enormous sea shells, cast in polished bronze, are cumbersome and costly.
1
Quite another to borrow money to fund a bloated, inept, patronage-driven state.
2
Back in the day, they used to be extremely hapless and inept.
3
Greece's national accounts turned out to be fiction and the state inept.
4
Seeking reaction from Argentinians who were so horribly inept is heavy work.
5
At first, I thought it was a comment on my inept synopsis.
1
Grey was a charming study in sepia. The description was not inapt.
2
Malcolm thought Cedric's name of Dr. Dryasdust was not an inapt title.
3
Her defense was weak and inapt but she attained her object.
4
So much Alaric had learnt, and had been no inapt scholar.
5
Why, he fetches up all the inapt, disagreeable, and harrowing things in his life.
Usage of ill-chosen in English
1
Nothing had changed her mood since his uncle paid his ill-chosen visit.
2
Given that the film is quite dull, that title now looks supremely ill-chosen.
3
In form it seemed perfect-nota superfluous or an ill-chosen word.
4
I perceived that what I had said was an ill-chosen thing.
5
Reformers are apt to be pelted with epithets quite as ill-chosen.
6
I cried, now thoroughly aroused at this ill-chosen trifling with time.
7
Elections are frequent, so that ill-chosen officials may not long abuse their position.
8
He was not a sodden imbecile, but he was ill-chosen for his office.
9
It was a good, old-fashioned, hot, heavy summer afternoon, one ill-chosen for love-making.
10
Let us leave this ill-chosen denomination and ask ourselves what the Lampyris feeds upon.
11
It seems to me to have been an ill-chosen battle-field.
12
Proctor was forced the following day to fight at a disadvantage, on ill-chosen ground.
13
This place- Iwilladmit that it is ill-chosen-butwhat other was open to me?
14
Charley wondered bitterly if he had made an irreparable error in saying those ill-chosen words.
15
It was an ill-chosen hour for Keraunus, for the Emperor was in a gloomy mood.
16
What's the betting those ill-chosen words will come back to bite him in the backside?
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