as in uncomfortable
lacking social grace and assurance
an eminent scientist who was wooden in front of television cameras
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Recent Examples of wooden
Standouts include a cookie decorating box set complete with a metal piping tool, a copper roasting pan, and a simple wooden card holder to keep holiday sentiments on display.
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Mariana Best, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Oct. 2025
Here, stainless steel tanks are arranged in a circular pattern around a central wooden barrel-aging chamber, inspired by ancient Tokaj cellars that were carved into volcanic rock.
—New Atlas, 19 Oct. 2025
For weeks, Janie Emerson kept a small wooden box of ashes on a special table in her La Jolla home.
—Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Oct. 2025
Costway 4-Piece Acacia Wood Furniture Set More than 80 shoppers have already snagged this wooden furniture set this month.
—Melody Kazel, PEOPLE, 19 Oct. 2025
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Mariana Best, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Oct. 2025
Here, stainless steel tanks are arranged in a circular pattern around a central wooden barrel-aging chamber, inspired by ancient Tokaj cellars that were carved into volcanic rock.
—New Atlas, 19 Oct. 2025
For weeks, Janie Emerson kept a small wooden box of ashes on a special table in her La Jolla home.
—Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Oct. 2025
Costway 4-Piece Acacia Wood Furniture Set More than 80 shoppers have already snagged this wooden furniture set this month.
—Melody Kazel, PEOPLE, 19 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for wooden
Adjective
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Pay close attention to signs that a new sweater is uncomfortable or causing your dog pain.—
BestReviews,
Mercury News,
16 Oct. 2025
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Taking their uncomfortable seats were Josh Greenstein, president of marketing and production; Sanford Panitch, president of production; and Steven O’Dell, president of international marketing.—
Jay Glennie,
Deadline,
16 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Arturs Silovs looked a bit clumsy in the first period and his rebound control was less than stellar.—
Josh Yohe,
New York Times,
17 Oct. 2025
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Actually, Alma does suffer from ulcers, which cause her extraordinary stomach pain and vomiting at inconvenient moments, and cause viewers to wonder not if but when such clumsy symbolic traits will be trotted out in the future.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
9 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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This uneasy detente between Matty and Olympia drives much of the rest of this episode’s plot.—
Noel Murray,
Vulture,
13 Oct. 2025
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Wichita police are asking for the public’s help identifying a woman reportedly taken by force early Sunday morning — an incident that has left neighbors uneasy.—
Stepheny Price,
FOXNews.com,
13 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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In all of the courses, the pedagogy is an awkward pastiche of traditions, combining Eastern Orthodox Christianity, Slavic paganism, Siberian shamanism, and Asian spiritual practices, spiked with elements of Jungian and American pop psychology.—
Julia Ioffe,
New Yorker,
19 Oct. 2025
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Pignato shared a scene from a recent consult with a rival company that wanted advice on how to bring AI into its engineering workflow, and an awkward generational mismatch.—
Jason Ma,
Fortune,
19 Oct. 2025
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The wedding itself embraced the natural beauty of the vineyard setting with its rustic elegance.—
Sean Mandell,
PEOPLE,
19 Oct. 2025
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The gorgeous black-and-white cinematography, rustic environments, and disorienting camera tricks deliver elegance and unease in equal measure.—
Randall Colburn,
Entertainment Weekly,
18 Oct. 2025
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“Wooden.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wooden. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.
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