Definition of Awkward

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Awkward

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.

Not easily managed or effected; embarrassing.

Perverse; adverse; untoward.

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Awkward Quotations

Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.
Brian Tracy

Maxwell is serious, dedicated, awkward, forgetful, pompous to a certain degree, sentimental.
Don Adams

I avoid clients for whom advertising is only a marginal factor in their marketing mix. They have an awkward tendency to raid their advertising appropriations whenever they need cash for other purposes.
David Ogilvy

When you go to take someone's picture, the first thing they say is, what you want me to do? Everyone is very awkward.
Annie Leibovitz

Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom from responsibility and must therefore reckon with the most vehement resistance.
Alfred Adler

President Bush left for Canada today to attend a trade summit. Reportedly, the trade summit got off to an awkward start when the president pulled out his baseball cards.
Conan O'Brien

I must say, I don't feel very qualified to be a pop star. I feel very awkward at times in the role.
Edward de Bono

Everyone is like a butterfly, they start out ugly and awkward and then morph into beautiful graceful butterflies that everyone loves.
Drew Barrymore

I never felt comfortable with myself, because I was never part of the majority. I always felt awkward and shy and on the outside of the momentum of my friends' lives.
Steven Spielberg

I'm getting better now, but I used to be incredibly awkward with girls. I think any guy who says 'I've never had an awkward moment with a girl' is a liar.
Daniel Radcliffe

Awkward Translations

awkward in Dutch is plomp, log
awkward in German is peinlich, ungelenk
awkward in Latin is inconcinnus
awkward in Norwegian is klosset, keitet
awkward in Swedish is brydsamma, oskicklig, tafatt, obehaglig

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