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.
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 - but what 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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