awkward

Definition for awkward

adjective as in clumsy, inelegant

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all thumbs, artless, blundering, bulky, bumbling, bungling, butterfingers, coarse, floundering, gawky, graceless, green, having two left feet, having two left hands, incompetent, inept, inexpert, klutzy, lumbering, maladroit, oafish, stumbling, uncoordinated, uncouth, unfit, ungainly, ungraceful, unhandy, unpolished, unrefined, unskilled, unskillful

adjective as in difficult to handle

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annoying, cumbersome, dangerous, inconvenient, perilous, risky, troublesome, uncomfortable, unwieldy

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bulky, chancy, cramped, disagreeable, discommodious, hard to use, hazardous, incommodious, unhandy, unmanageable

adjective as in embarrassing

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delicate, difficult, embarrassed, inconvenient, painful, ticklish, troublesome, uncomfortable, unpleasant

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compromising, ill at ease, inopportune, perplexing, sticky, thorny, trying, untimely

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And how awkward could it be if he found himself on the losing side of the argument, were hundreds of his own MPs to oppose a change?

From BBC

Crusius, 21 years old, with wavy dark brown hair, sparse stubble collecting on his round chin, was awkward and introverted.

From Salon

"Yeah, that's nice . . . you're the wrong gender," Stewart shoots back, before playfully shoving Barrymore off in an awkward moment that the host leans into by dramatically falling back on the couch.

From Salon

After he was elected in 2016, Trump met with then-President Obama in the Oval Office for 90 minutes, an encounter that Obama’s advisors described at the time as less awkward than expected.

From Los Angeles Times

But ultimately for me, I’m shy and awkward.

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