Words similar to awkwardness

Example sentences for: awkwardness

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

(The British practice using a politically correct plural pronoun of reference for a singular antecedent is followed, explaining their job in the last example; the awkwardness could have been spared by a change to directors .)
Can you suggest a way we can kindly refuse the offer without creating awkwardness between us?
Yet, many prefer chair to chairperson on the grounds of brevity and because it avoids the awkwardness of the longer alternative.
A deeper affinity seems to have drawn Morton to them, ghostwriting fees aside: Here were two massively unself-aware individuals who had maneuvered themselves into positions of national awkwardness, women who were all but impossible to defend.
Her mother lives just long enough to inculcate in her (unjustifiably) a sense of her own awkwardness.