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 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.
6 The terms primary and secondary sex characteristics, though inapt , must be allowed to stand.
7 In that department, however, I was, and remained, very inapt .
8 To return an inapt yell would be worse than silence.
9 Its Indian name, signifying 'the chosen place,' was not inapt for our meeting ground.
10 It is the vice of the clodhopper, unattractive to women or inapt to court them.
11 People everywhere do not blame their economic predicament on inapt administrations, or on specific leaders.
12 The term "struggle for existence" is, then, not an inapt one.
13 The following description {208} of a class of contemporary dramas is not wholly inapt :
14 The parable is not by any means inapt .
15 Neufmarché disregarded the inapt remark, even as he ignored the sharp decline evidenced in Cadwgan's appearance.
16 It means "terrible lizard" and was a curiously inapt name.
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