Meaning of awkwardness | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The state or quality of being awkward; clumsiness; unskillfulness.
   uncountable, usually
2. difficulty, trouble, problem, challenge, constraint, strenuousness, arduousness
3. The quality of an embarrassing situation.
   uncountable, usually
4. hardship, challenge, plight, distress
5. second-person plural imperative of dificultar

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Examples

“[…] instead of the joyous voices of his playfellows he hears the rough commands of an unindulgent master or a scolding mistress; — he is continually reproached for his awkwardness and timidity, and reminded of his pauper origin.”

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