• Synonyms: awkwardness, cumbersomeness, unwieldiness
  Meaning: trouble in carrying or managing caused by bulk or shape; "the movers cursed the unwieldiness of the big piano"
• Synonyms: awkwardness, clumsiness, gracelessness, stiffness
  Meaning: the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment)
• Synonyms: awkwardness, clumsiness
  Meaning: the carriage of someone whose movements and posture are ungainly or inelegant
• Synonyms: awkwardness, nuisance_value
  Meaning: the quality of an embarrassing situation; "he sensed the awkwardness of his proposal"
• Synonyms: awkwardness, clumsiness, ineptness, ineptitude, maladroitness, slowness
  Meaning: unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training

• Excuse my awkwardness."
• He felt his awkwardness leaving him.
• The Duchess was made to understand that she must prevent any such awkwardness.
• When Natasha left the room Pierre's confusion and awkwardness immediately vanished and were replaced by eager excitement.
• They all three of them now experienced that feeling of awkwardness which usually follows after a serious and heartfelt talk.
• There was a conviction in the way she said this, and a felicity in her believing it, which conduced to Isabel's awkwardness.
• When he reached his room, he tenderly laid the hat upon his bookshelf, and to wear off his awkwardness, mounted his wheel and went spinning on trail again.
• She never lost a moment of time, and seemed almost to grudge the necessary leisure for relaxation and play-hours, which might be partly accounted for by the awkwardness in all games occasioned by her shortness of sight.
• The singing-seats, projecting from the central portion of the gallery, furnished me with another hebdomadal study, in large gilt letters of antique awkwardness, which so impressed themselves on my mind that I see them now.
• But when Mr. Rodd leaves the problem of the Unconditioned to take care of itself, and makes no attempt to solve the mysteries of the Ego and the non-Ego, he is very pleasant reading indeed. A Mazurka of Chopin is charming, in spite of the awkwardness of the fifth line, and so are the verses on Assisi, and those on San Servolo at Venice.

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