awkwardness

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Recent Examples of awkwardness Carl Baker still finds an awkwardness in using the term. Philip Buckingham, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025 Channel your inner comedian Humor is one of the best antidotes to awkwardness. Angela Haupt, Time, 8 Oct. 2025 Cappelli urged managers to rethink meetings that take up too much of people’s time, full of awkwardness that seems normal now but would have seemed bizarre five years ago. Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2025 Chicago Fire star Christian Stolte says Mouch will eventually have to face this awkwardness directly. Claire Franken, TVLine, 1 Oct. 2025 This acknowledged the error, diffused the awkwardness and reoriented the conversation onto a positive heading. Rolling Stone Culture Council, Rolling Stone, 30 Sep. 2025 The awkwardness is overshadowed by the vehicle’s driving qualities, its serious road grip and keen maneuverability. James Raia, Mercury News, 28 Sep. 2025 The awkwardness of that, the tentativeness. Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 26 Sep. 2025 These two were both nerdy and sweet, and shared a certain endearing awkwardness. Sarah John, Vulture, 24 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for awkwardness
Noun
  • Police in Oklahoma witnessed the clumsiness of nature when a wildlife rescue turned from pure-hearted Disney moment into Discovery channel outtake, video shows.
    TJ Macias, Kansas City Star, 29 Sep. 2025
  • And this is in addition to our ongoing on-pitch tactical clumsiness and lack of motivation for big games.
    Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 27 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Not two years later this tower was to collapse precipitately under its own weight into a pyramid of dust and rubble, only to be rebuilt later, in, unaccountably, all its former gracelessness.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 8 Oct. 2025

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“Awkwardness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/awkwardness. Accessed 17 Oct. 2025.

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