awkward

causing inconvenience

• “they arrived at an awkward time”

lacking grace or skill in manner or movement or performance

• “an awkward dancer”
• “an awkward gesture”
• “too awkward with a needle to make her own clothes”
• “his clumsy fingers produced an awkward knot”

difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape

• “an awkward bundle to carry”
• “a load of bunglesome paraphernalia”
• “clumsy wooden shoes”
• “the cello, a rather ungainly instrument for a girl”

not elegant or graceful in expression

• “an awkward prose style”
• “a clumsy apology”
• “his cumbersome writing style”
• “if the rumor is true, can anything be more inept than to repeat it now?”

hard to deal with; especially causing pain or embarrassment

• “awkward (or embarrassing or difficult) moments in the discussion”
• “an awkward pause followed his remark”
• “a sticky question”
• “in the unenviable position of resorting to an act he had planned to save for the climax of the campaign”

not at ease socially; unsure and constrained in manner

• “awkward and reserved at parties”
• “ill at ease among eddies of people he didn”
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