Hard to deal with; especially causing pain or embarrassment.
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This takes us back to the awkward problem of money and priorities.
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Which is a relatively friendly and diplomatic solution to an awkward situation.
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Today was the first time he'd seen her since that awkward introduction.
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The Director said to smooth awkward situation he would just stand around.
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The routes are awkward; the companies involved do not coordinate their efforts.
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I can't seem to stop myself answering everything they ask, however embarrassing.
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The military has taken deep and embarrassing cuts: aircraft carriers without aircraft.
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Five years ago there were several embarrassing auto burglaries from the lot.
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Splashing out all over the place in the most embarrassing way possible.
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I'd say that's a very serious and embarrassing error for everybody responsible.
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The wagon-covers became sticky in the sun, and rigid in the cold.
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Likewise, consider a short rappel or tension traverse to circumnavigate sticky problems.
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That includes the sticky topic of mutual assessments of national financial systems.
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They asked some really sticky questions about computers and discipline for learning.
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And you know how to get out of a sticky situation too.
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For his opposite number Brian Ashton the result produced an unenviable double.
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Mr Thomson said import-export firms were being put in an unenviable position.
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This is the unenviable position in which the party currently finds itself.
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Executions in the Market Place seem to have had an unenviable notoriety.
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Twenty years later the vicinity of the Rose gained an unenviable reputation.
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After a dismal election campaign, British voters today face an unenviable choice.
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In fairness, their reaction is as understandable as their position is unenviable.
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The domestic chaplain, of all men living, held the most unenviable position.
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The 20-year-old Brazilian has the unenviable task of stepping into Ziyech's boots.
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Steve now had the unenviable record of nine strap-ins for two flights.
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He acquired by excesses of all kinds a wide and unenviable celebrity.
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Its marketing department gave it an unenviable reputation, but achieved amazing success.
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A most unenviable condition, where no sort of comforts can be got.
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They were put in the unenviable position of reconstructing their very lives.
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Such incidents as these gave John Anderson an unenviable reputation among sailors.
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Everyone seemed loath to add further criticism to Shirley's rather unenviable reputation.
