awkward

(s) causing inconvenience
- they arrived at an awkward time
(a) lacking grace or skill in manner or movement or performance
- an awkward dancer
- an awkward gesture
- too awkward with a needle to make her own clothes
- his clumsy fingers produced an awkward knot
(s) difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape
- an awkward bundle to carry
- a load of bunglesome paraphernalia
- clumsy wooden shoes
- the cello, a rather ungainly instrument for a girl
bunglesome, ungainly, clumsy,
(s) not elegant or graceful in expression
- an awkward prose style
- a clumsy apology
- his cumbersome writing style
- if the rumor is true, can anything be more inept than to repeat it now?
ill-chosen, inapt, inept, clumsy, cumbersome,
(s) hard to deal with; especially causing pain or embarrassment
- awkward (or embarrassing or difficult) moments in the discussion
- an awkward pause followed his remark
- a sticky question
- in the unenviable position of resorting to an act he had planned to save for the climax of the campaign
embarrassing, unenviable, sticky,
(s) socially uncomfortable; unsure and constrained in manner
- awkward and reserved at parties
- ill at ease among eddies of people he didn't know
- was always uneasy with strangers
ill at ease, uneasy,

bunglesome ungainly clumsy ill-chosen inapt inept cumbersome embarrassing unenviable sticky ill at ease uneasy

graceful

awkwardly awkwardness