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AWKWARD

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awkward adjectiv

(despre oameni, mişcări etc.) stângaci, neîndemânatic;

an awkward gait un mers greoi / stângaci.

2. incomod, neîndemânatic, dificil, anevoios, neplăcut, penibil;

an awkward situation o situaţie incomodă / delicată / neplăcută.

3. greu, incomod.

4. (fam.) periculos.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

“This is really rather an awkward fix for me. I don’t mind how I get on.”

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I was awkward enough in their games, and backward enough in their studies; but custom would improve me in the first respect, I hoped, and hard work in the second.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

The situation was awkward, but the most direct way is often the best.

(His Last Bow, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She made no answer, and for an awkward moment they sat silent.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

It was a very awkward moment; and the countenance of each shewed that it was so.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

Elizabeth quietly answered “Undoubtedly;” and after an awkward pause, they returned to the rest of the family.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

Also I was awkward.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

This very awkward history of Mr Elliot was still, after an interval of several years, felt with anger by Elizabeth, who had liked the man for himself, and still more for being her father's heir, and whose strong family pride could see only in him a proper match for Sir Walter Elliot's eldest daughter.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

Another room of much better size might be secured for the purpose; but it was at the other end of the house, and a long awkward passage must be gone through to get at it.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

That is very awkward.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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