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Awkward

/ˈɔːkwəd/
Causing or feeling embarrassment or inconvenience; not graceful or skillful in movement or action.

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Examples:

A pause ensued, in which the schoolmaster looked very awkward.

'It's infernally awkward.

"I'm afraid I'm too awkward, maybe.

Etymology:

etymology
Originates from Middle English awk, meaning backward, wrong, combined with the Old Norse vǫkrd, forming awkward in the late 14th century.

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