0 in a worried or embarrassed way:
The publication of the economic statistics was awkwardly timed for the government.
1 moving in a way that is not natural, relaxed, or attractive:
3 in an intentionally unhelpful way:
4 so as to make something difficult to deal with:
The publication of the article was awkwardly timed for the government.
5 without grace:
The body occupies a territory where language itself becomes problematic, awkwardly polarised between the medical-clinical and the vulgar-demotic.
Coordination in the motionverb example in (i) allows for a single-event interpretation, whereas in (ii) and functions (awkwardly) as a conjunction.
The irreconcilable duality of his being is restated every time he traipses awkwardly across the stage.
Feeling-based ministry is often awkwardly delivered, occasionally emotional, and tends more towards the poetic than the prosaic.
Such a list of characters however, far from giving structure and direction to this study, seems to stand awkwardly in the way of a smooth reading of a complicated story.
The chair's, perhaps, making you sit awkwardly.
The author is all the same right to conclude, however awkwardly, that 'this same finitude of elements [is essential] for the discriminability, learnability, memorability and reproducibility of music patterns'.
We know that he does not want to refer to the matter too awkwardly again.
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