Not elegant or graceful in expression.
Generally incompetent and ineffectual.
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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 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.
Revealing lack of perceptiveness or judgment or finesse.
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.
6 Once again, your job is to protect the inept rodents from themselves.
7 He said: do not be discomposed by the opinions of inept persons.
8 Here you are, you say, delivered to me by your inept protector.
9 He wanted to cause confusion and make us look and feel inept .
10 If the narcissist fails in therapy - his analyst must be inept .
11 He asked himself how he could have been so stupid, so inept .
12 He was as brilliant a potentate as he was inept a lover.
13 A man so inept , he hires his own informer to expose him.
14 But the costly Brexit referendum confirmed that Cameron is inept in a crisis.
15 He was right; the competition has been scattered, and mostly inept .
16 The results so far have been provocative but ultimately inept , messy.
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