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awkward age

noun as in growing pains

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I like to think of a crowd with pikes and torches shouting passages from "The Awkward Age."

He was just of that awkward age when boys fancy themselves men, and men are not prepared to lower themselves to their level.

It is both; and until the loss and the gain, the new and the old, are permanently separated and balanced, the awkward age lasts.

Both were painfully conscious of their awkward age and the fact that they were no longer children.

"The Awkward Age," fairy godmother and spotless lamb and all the rest of it.

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On this page you'll find 108 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to awkward age, such as: adolescence, bloom, boyhood, childhood, girlhood, and ignorance.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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