Words similar to awkward

Example sentences for: awkward

How can you use “awkward” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

I agree that these episodes can be awkward-and, Lord, if they are awkward for you, how do you think they feel for me.
Jeff's term for a child in the awkward stage between needing diapers and being reliable in big boys or big girls (real underpants) is a time bomb . When accidents happen, the victim never admits being soaking wet, but will concede to feeling the “least little bit dampish.”
With an advanced degree in literature, she has read Schiller and Shakespeare, and she is writing 20 years later, when American Judaism has grown less awkward about itself.
However, when entering a building, the outward swinging door makes both holding and preceding an awkward maneuver--at least in my experience.
But in other ways, the timing of the MoMA show was awkward and even potentially embarrassing.