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awkwardness Synonyms

awkwardness

n.

  1. Clumsiness

    inaptitude, clumsiness, ineptitude, ineptness, inability, incompetence, botchery, gawkiness, maladroitness, crudeness, ignorance, heavy-handedness, unhandiness, ungainliness, ungracefulness, oafishness, gracelessness, butterfingers*, handful of thumbs*, klutziness*.

    Antonyms ability*, grace*, competence.

  2. Embarrassment

    embarrassment, discomfiture, gaucherie, tactlessness; see embarrassment 1, 2,.

awkwardness Quotes

  Need I go on? I hate to bite Hands that led me to the limelight In the Penguin book, I regret The awkwardness. But British, no, the name's not right. Yours truly, Seamus.

—Heaney, SeamusJustin

Browse dictionary entries near awkwardness

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