Unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training.
The inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment)
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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 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 .
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.
Difficulty performing tasks involving motor skills.
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 .
6 The clumsiness of the suit almost caused him to miss the squid.
7 His quiet insistence made Archer feel the clumsiness of his own bluster.
8 The mighty host went off with pig-like clumsiness - tails up and manes tossing.
9 The interview had been hell, ineffable torture, a perfect crime of clumsiness .
10 Still impenetrable to a sense of his own clumsiness , Armadale followed me.
11 And I pray your pardon again, Villehardouin, for my very great clumsiness .
12 He went expertly, swinging from car to car with apelike clumsiness - and surety .
13 Two boys, Reacher figured, judging by the uninhibited clumsiness of their progress.
14 It's not so much clumsiness , but you are afraid of getting pricked.
15 Do I want to have my neck twisted because of your clumsiness ?
16 He sat in the dark cursing his clumsiness and sucking his fingers.
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Clumsiness в диалектах
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