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awkward English
Meaning awkward meaning
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Synonyms awkward synonyms
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Topics awkward topics
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Simple sentences
No one can say for sure how this awkward state of affairs came about.
The movements of this robot are awkward.
I feel awkward in his presence.
At first the trainees were awkward in his company.
The girl made an awkward bow.
There was an awkward silence when he appeared.
His words created an awkward situation.
He used chopsticks in an awkward way.
She is awkward.
His style was awkward.
There was an awkward pause.
She was awkward and reserved at parties.
He felt awkward after she kissed him.
Tom felt awkward.
After an awkward pause, Bill took her by the hand and dragged her upstairs.
I felt very awkward.
This generation of online daters, far more native to the Internet, are a lot less awkward than the first generation.
The Oxford comma is awkward, unnecessary, and cannot be carried over to languages other than English.
You'd have so much more success with women if you'd quit trying to be someone you're not and just let yourself be charmingly awkward.
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I didn't want to screw anything up or make anything awkward for her.
Yeah. That sounded awkward.
And what's worse, they keep running out of gas and getting jammed, in the most awkward positions.
Oh, my God, it's so awkward.
Well, that's awkward.
No, that's not awkward.
Look, I know this is awkward, but can you just talk to me not as my lawyer and just as the guy who's secretly dating my room-mate and whatever that makes you to me.
Don't make things awkward mother.
How awkward.
How very awkward.
Mr. Renault, we find ourselves in a very awkward predicament.
I may be old-fashioned, but I feel awkward when I'm not introduced to people.
Don't mind, it was a very aw...awkward moment.
I mean, Erica's so young, she's at an awkward age.
Oh, it's all very awkward.
It might be awkward when you show her off.
It was a very awk. awkward moment.
I make no exceptions. Your rule is rather awkward to strangers.
It must be rather awkward not having the full use of one's right hand, I imagine. It will be alright in the morning.
That's awkward.
That was an awkward situation, over that girl.
If he doesn't come here again, it's because he would find it awkward marrying a girl who is so free with her kisses.
Any heroics now will put me in a very awkward position.
I'm having a rumba lesson. It's awkward.
It's a little bit awkward.
You don't have to worry about awkward because when I tell Bijou who is the boss, she knows that I'm the boss and I'm going.
Yes, she could be a little awkward.
I was just gonna try and make things better, and, like, apologize, and just wanted to let her know that I didn't, you know, I didn't want to screw anything up or make anything awkward for her.
I have an awkward question to ask.
God, this is awkward, um, I came here to tell you that Valencia.
I don't want him to feel awkward because of me.
But with others it can be. awkward.
It's awkward.
How awkward of me.
Well, you see, Max, I find myself in a rather awkward position.
I'm awkward with my left hand.
It's the lamb being awkward.
Really, Elizabeth, this is very awkward.
I'm her big brother. It would be a little awkward for me to bring it up.
News and current affairs
Even though your ascension to the position of Prime Minister came in an awkward way because of Ariel Sharon's stroke, I believe that you have an opportunity to be part of a historic reconciliation.
Hence, he could not accept America's awkward pro-democracy agenda.
No one doubts that Barroso is in an awkward position.
It is possible that the opposition's awkward coalition will be tested by their rival presidential dreams.
It was inconvenient because gold was awkward for everyday transactions, and silver had too little value for major transfers.
For starters, the existing treaty cannot be used to create a single European resolution authority, leaving an awkward interface between the ECB and national authorities.
The timing of all of this was awkward.
We are left with the certainty, however awkward, that active participation in an open world economy requires some surrender of economic sovereignty.
Islamist candidates were in an awkward position, seeking support from women voters, whose participation they opposed.
A very awkward hour passed before he accepted reality and made a gracious concession speech.
Eastern thinking could creep into ethology unnoticed partly because it filtered into the literature through awkward formulations and translations that native English speakers found it easy to improve on.
Confronted with an awkward problem, he responded with reason.
Yet, as Russia approaches the 60th anniversary of its victory over Nazi Germany, marking Stalin's role in that victory is proving to be damnably awkward.
They find it awkward to give reasons for their policies and regard parliaments as no more than a reservoir for those with whom they are prepared to share power.
Instead, all we have heard is an awkward, deafening, and breathtakingly hypocritical silence - or worse.
Their literary power derives from their authors' courage to ask awkward questions and write with honesty.
To be sure, Vladimir Putin's Russia is nationalistic, awkward, and disposed to dangerous trouble-making.
To state the obvious, this contrast between Germany and its neighborhood is very awkward.
The British and Chinese governments in the 1980's designed Hong Kong's awkward political system during their negotiations over the eventual transfer of sovereignty.
This is particularly awkward at a time when the Chinese authorities seem to be taking an even harder line on dissent.
Though it is possible to sympathize with the Ghanaians, who were placed in a very awkward position, the indictment intensified demands for Taylor's removal.
Experience presents an awkward fit (at best) with this conception.
The reports put Pakistan's political leaders in an awkward position.