awkward
笨拙的,尴尬的,笨拙,尴尬
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Definitions
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- : lacking skill or dexterity.
- : lacking grace or ease in movement: an awkward gesture;an awkward dancer.
- : lacking social graces or manners: a simple, awkward frontiersman.
- : not well planned or designed for easy or effective use: an awkward instrument;an awkward method.
- : requiring caution; somewhat hazardous: an awkward turn in the road.
- : hard to deal with; difficult; requiring skill, tact, or the like: an awkward situation;an awkward customer.
- : embarrassing or inconvenient; caused by lack of social grace: an awkward moment.
- : Obsolete. untoward; perverse.
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Examples
It’s the first time I’ve read a book where every sentence is cowritten, and it didn’t feel awkward at all.
The painful consequence of that will be a clunky, suboptimal transposition of the physical to the virtual, right down—one fears—to an awkward videoconference cocktail hour.
You can also stretch one app across both screens, but it’s unsightly and awkward to have your content sliced down the middle with a big blank bar.
The latest service disruptions come at an awkward time for Robinhood.
Except that it’ll be rooted in awkward, funny and compelling reality.
The squabble was also immortalized in this incredibly awkward family portrait.
The rapper will.i.am was one such panelist, forced upon Gregory for an excruciatingly awkward roundtable segment.
Some immediately treated the young rapper as a punchline, turning his awkward posture in the photo into a meme.
He sketched it quickly, his hand trembling, giving the drawing an awkward, palsied look.
By two-thirty on the first afternoon at his house, I long for a cup of coffee but feel awkward about asking.
The moment was an awkward one, and Cynthia wished madly that she had not been prompted to ask that unfortunate question.