(a.) Wanting dexterity in the use of the hands, or of instruments; not dexterous; without skill; clumsy; wanting ease, grace, or effectiveness in movement; ungraceful; as, he was awkward at a trick; an awkward boy.
(a.) Not easily managed or effected; embarrassing.
(a.) Perverse; adverse; untoward.
Example Sentences:
(1) But she has struggled – quite awkwardly – to articulate her evolution on same-sex marriage, and has left environmental activists wondering what her exact energy policy is.
(2) Once installed, the alliance will become an awkward, obstructionist presence, committed, in the words of the Northern League's Matteo Salvini, to "a different Europe, based on work and peoples and not in the one based on servitude to the euro and banks, ready to let us die from immigration and unemployment".
(3) There is no getting around the awkward fact that in Bristol West Stephen Williams represents a constituency of 82,503 while his neighbouring Labour MP in Bristol East, Kerry McCarthy, speaks for 69,347 constituents.
(4) Our team of reporters have spent the last week on an intensive bikram yoga course in order to get themselves into the rather awkward position of having their ears to the ground, their eyes to the skies and their fingers on the pulse.
(5) Jesús Navas played a one-two with Touré down the right and from his awkward cross the England squad goalkeeper fumbled the ball inside his six-yard area from where Fernando scored with an overhead kick as dextrous as it was surprising.
(6) It's straight at Stockdale, though the keeper needs two attempts to get the ball under control in these awkward conditions.
(7) And then the ball is in Caballero's hands.At the other end, Courtois beats away an awkward, bouncing drive from long range.
(8) That is an awkward, indeed risky, time to be contemplating takeoff.
(9) Despite his insistence that comedy should be colour-blind, Amos admits black audiences prefer the black circuit, where "you know the material isn't going to be racist or make you feel awkward, where you feel like you belong".
(10) And yet for all his anti-establishment credentials, Mr Galloway is as practised as any of his New Labour enemies at squirming away from awkward questions.
(11) Our calculations show that the biological inactive O-methyl-delta 8-THC orients with its long axis parallel to the lipid acyl chains, whereas the psychoactive cannabinoids assume "awkward" orientations in which the hydroxyl groups are pointing towards the bilayer interface, presumably to maximize the amphipathic interaction with the membrane.
(12) Why have they not done away with their own bodies and hair and all their awkward woman-type things?
(13) And I said: 'Look, man, I just got here, if it's OK, I don't wanna just walk in and take a picture – it'd make me feel awkward.'
(14) The SBS, in association with fluoroscopy, permits simple surgical implementation with accurate localization and extraction of foreign bodies, with the elimination of awkward, unpredictable, and time consuming retrieval techniques.
(15) What some people saw in this mistake was again a cultural bias against black art, unconscious though it may be This is why this mix-up mattered more than a bit of onstage awkwardness.
(16) April 16, 2014 The hesitancy – or unwillingness – of Ukrainian troops to use their weapons has produced multiple awkward confrontations with civilian crowds Wednesday, including one in Pchyolkino south of Kratamorsk, which seems still to be unresolved after an hours-long standoff.
(17) Sitting opposite her as she eats croissants and fixes on espresso it is hard to equate the immaculate perfection of Guillem the performer, in bobbed wig and suspenders last night, with the awkwardly engaging and somewhat bed-headed Guillem in skinny jeans and T-shirt this morning.
(18) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Donald Trump and Theresa May awkwardly hold hands at White House
(19) Even that took a finely weighted pass and an awkward stretching first touch from two very fine technicians.
(20) What's more, his genial stiffness and shy self-awareness give him a kind of awkward dignity compared to the preening smugness of Cruz.
Maladroit
Definition:
(a.) Of a quality opposed to adroitness; clumsy; awkward; unskillful.
Example Sentences:
(1) Later, Walcott did something similar to the maladroit Rooney.
(2) That does not surprise Lynda Shentall, a Gorton resident who led a campaign in 2002 to save the local swimming pool which, with remarkably maladroit timing, the council was closing because it said it could not maintain annual running costs of £75,000.
(3) Women The male grip on the top shadow cabinet jobs led to fury, a damaging and avoidable irony given that Corbyn has appointed more spokeswomen than men, and one that owes a great deal to maladroit media management.
(4) It was a poor decision by Andre Marriner, Turner's careless elbow maladroit rather than malicious.
(5) The Seattle Times called it Murray's “most maladroit move”.
(6) Or outlaw the surly barman who makes clear his distaste for all except the local drunks, and the maladroit waiter who inadvertently clips the diner's ear with the plate while serving soup.
(7) Helping maladroit adolescents achieve optimal potential is a challenge for physicians, educators, and others involved in their care.
(8) He described himself as "gauche, maladroit and sinister", on the lookout for an exit.
(9) Being maladroit in a society with increasing emphasis on performance is a formidable challenge to adolescent development.
(10) Harry's strop was both maladroit and inappropriate, to the extent that you might think his bark is worse than his bite.
(11) But it took Blair’s compromises with economic Thatcherism, his role in the Iraq war of 2003, maladroit Brown’s defeat in 2010, and the Cameron coalition’s austerity drive finally to alienate Labour’s core vote in Scotland.
(12) There has always been a sense of advocacy among those working with the adolescent whose exaggerated maladroitness stems from a problem with learning or attention.
(13) What emerges from the shameful way in which "debate" has been manipulated, is that the hold of the media over the imagination of the people is more circumscribed than its practitioners believe, so maladroit has been their management of political news.
(14) As host, Abbott greeted every foreign leader and his exchange with the Russian leader – hugely anticipated by the Australian media – descended to the farcical, with Putin giving a maladroit hand gesture that was liable to misinterpretation.
(15) Other causes include dubious feeding practices, diabetes mellitus, diabetes insipidus, and maladroit diagnostic and therapeutic maneuvers, including administration of radiologic contrast medium or hypertonic sodium bicarbonate or mannitol infusions, or the use of salt solutions as an emetic.