Not elegant or graceful in expression.
Showing lack of skill or aptitude.
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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 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 Its 19-member board looked unwieldy and reluctant to challenge management, investors said.
2 But not too simple: That's a market the unwieldy throw-bots have cornered.
3 German supervisory boards, which usually have 20 members, tend to be unwieldy .
4 It made them into a unit for her, however unwieldy and unreliable.
5 Each entry listed the planet under its unwieldy and foreign-sounding new name.
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 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 .
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.
Lacking grace in movement or posture.
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.
6 Jumping can be clumsy and could be a problem in this context.
7 A moment later, the Grunt lines came to a clumsy halt, confused.
8 Because it is a clumsy fabrication which simply could not be true.
9 The laws were clear and simple, the mechanical interpretations clumsy and contradictory.
10 It inhabits trees, but is very clumsy in appearance and in action.
11 It is a clumsy imitation of the policy of Frederick in 1756.
12 The spat reveals clumsy links among old media, new media and Washington.
13 Many were shocked by clumsy reactions by public figures to Strauss-Kahn's arrest.
14 The established pleasures were clumsy and tiresome-looking; but one could eschew them.
15 He answers it in a painstaking, rather clumsy hand: but he manages.
16 Ayla stopped and was watching a herd of the strange, clumsy - looking animals.
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