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