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Meanings of slowness in English
Spanish
torpeza Unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training.
Synonyms
Examples for "awkwardness"
Examples for "awkwardness"
1
There was an awkwardness building; we were struggling to find common ground.
2
One of my colleagues was commenting on the awkwardness of this situation.
3
The duke was the first to relieve the awkwardness of the moment.
4
In movement and speech she was brisk to the point of awkwardness.
5
That was the major reason I avoided you myself, to avoid awkwardness.
1
The clumsiness of the style is exhibited in frequent mannerisms and repetitions.
2
Serendipitous clumsiness and outright blunders have pushed science ahead all through history.
3
Aurore could feel Ti' Boo's impatience in the clumsiness of her movements.
4
His every effort is exerted to avoid intricacy and clumsiness in machinery.
5
He has no sort of skill in fishing, but a peculiar clumsiness.
1
Ever believe that its actions were the product of ineptitude, not cruelty?
2
Chatillon was a fool; he has drowned himself in his own ineptitude.
3
We need to confront corruption, patronage and ineptitude wherever we see it.
4
Made her wonder what Aimee had taken from him with her ineptitude.
5
The whispering began: Was Blair's new hair a sign of fundamental ineptitude?
1
In the fight between government ineptness and corporate greed, the public has lost.
2
Under rather more difficult conditions, the Necrophorus repeats the ineptness of the Turkey.
3
But Chechenya has become the symbol of his presidency's ineptness and loss of direction.
4
Heed well to the end that no ineptness may arise.
5
If these two noticed Angel's growing social ineptness, he noticed their growing mental limitations.
1
On one occasion an instance of maladroitness was cited in reply.
2
Generations of young officers had survived maladroitness and embarrassment, and no doubt Carson would as well.
3
She marvelled at her maladroitness, which was the more singular because she had really written under strong emotion.
4
Pardon my maladroitness, I pray you?
5
With unerring maladroitness Pelgram had chosen the time of all others when his star was burning with its feeblest flame.
Lack of normal development of intellectual capacities.
Usage of slowness in English
1
And that often meant that events moved with an extraordinarily deliberate slowness.
2
Perhaps more important was the mere slowness of the diffusion of ideas.
3
That first part of the long night march moved with maddening slowness.
4
The market is going through a typical year-end bout of pre-holidy slowness.
5
But that low-tech approach might flounder at businesses due to its slowness.
6
Now he complained to the Duke about the slowness of the task.
7
The curtain rose, and with the slowness of life the act proceeded.
8
The minutes wore away with agonizing slowness, and still they discovered nothing.
9
She unconsciously blamed the slowness of the Italian soldier for his injury.
10
Contrast with this toilsome slowness the speed of the junk bound down-stream.
11
Everything and everybody in Doctors' Commons seemed the very incarnation of slowness.
12
Swiftness or slowness in duty is very much a matter of habit.
13
Touch that and with majestic slowness and certainty the mighty mass turns.
14
As a student he had failed rhetoric simply through slowness of mind.
15
Their complaints about the slowness and sloppiness of the service were loud.
16
Occasionally he muttered impatiently to himself at the slowness of his progress.
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Slowness through the time
Slowness across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common