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UK
/ˈɔːkwədnəs/
]
[ US /ˈɔkwɝdnəs/ ]
[ US /ˈɔkwɝdnəs/ ]
NOUN
- the carriage of someone whose movements and posture are ungainly or inelegant
- the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment)
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the quality of an embarrassing situation
he sensed the awkwardness of his proposal - unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training
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trouble in carrying or managing caused by bulk or shape
the movers cursed the unwieldiness of the big piano
How To Use awkwardness In A Sentence
- For all its heart-thumping glory, it can also come with a heavy-duty helping of awkwardness and anxiety.
- The awkwardness between them soon vanished when they began laughing and mocking the poorly produced film.
- In spite of the divorce there was no awkwardness between them - in fact they seemed very much at ease.
- I told her about my coffee date with my neighbour last week, and we analysed with our usual ruefulness the mixture of mellowness and awkwardness that arose.
- It can be viewed as yet another manifestation of the awkwardness, or cussedness, of organisms.
- With squint-eyed innocence and un-metered awkwardness, Stewart delivers an unexpected hit performance that would later land him additional appearances in commercials and voice-over roles.
- I with a maddening sense of awkwardness, that was not much bettered by the tattle of the plainstanes, where merchant lads and others made audible comment on the cousinly ardour of young Lachie. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
- Hesiod's version shows some stylistic awkwardness and inconcinnity, but is not without power.
- ‘I love the awkwardness of a brainstorm, the tenseness when different ideas come together,’ she says.
- The English subtitles, on the other hand, are utterly inept - full of awkwardness and solecisms.
