Awkward - Crossword Clue

Crossword Clue Last Updated: 13/01/2024

Below are possible answers for the crossword clue Awkward.

6 letter answer(s) to awkward

CLUNKY
  1. lacking grace in movement or posture;
  2. making a clunking sound
GAUCHE
  1. lacking social polish; "too gauche to leave the room when the conversation became intimate"; "their excellent manners always made me feel gauche"
STICKY
  1. covered with an adhesive material
  2. hard to deal with; especially causing pain or embarrassment; "awkward (or embarrassing or difficult) moments in the discussion"; "an awkward pause followed his remark"; "a sticky question"; "in the unenviable position of resorting to an act he had planned to save for the climax of the campaign"
  3. having the sticky properties of an adhesive
  4. hot or warm and humid; "muggy weather"; "the steamy tropics"; "sticky weather"
  5. moist as with undried perspiration and with clothing sticking to the body; "felt sticky and chilly at the same time"

9 letter answer(s) to awkward

ILLATEASE
MALADROIT
  1. Awkward
  2. Inept
  3. not adroit; "a maladroit movement of his hand caused the car to swerve"; "a maladroit translation"; "maladroit propaganda"

5 letter answer(s) to awkward

INEPT
  1. clumsy
  2. generally incompetent and ineffectual; "feckless attempts to repair the plumbing"; "inept handling of the account"
  3. not elegant or graceful in expression;
  4. revealing lack of perceptiveness or judgment or finesse; "an inept remark"; "it was tactless to bring up those disagreeable"

8 letter answer(s) to awkward

UNGAINLY
  1. Awkward
  2. difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape;
  3. lacking grace in movement or posture;

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Awkward, clumsy
Awkward, if essential part of Oberammergau, cherished
Awkward? Cane boy's bottom
Awkwardly heavy and clumsy
Bad sex perverse writer's included
Barry, it could be said, appears difficult
Black singer caught out flirt, becoming uncomfortable
Bumbling
Bumbling in record time
Bungling
Bungling in record time
Cane applied to boy’s rear? That could be awkward
Clueless
Clumsy
Clumsy admiral to get transferred
Clumsy cowboy not entirely on horse's back
Clumsy creature raised largely without master
Clumsy French drive on it over here
Clumsy German, hurt when touring university
Clumsy pioneer regularly taking part
Clumsy writer from the South defined by sex
Clumsy writer going wrong way in Italian
Clumsy writer held up by computer technology
Cumbersome
Difficult adhesive
Drop case of wines and port - clumsy!
Embarrassed, one Liberal departed HQ topless
Fashionable pet hopelessly clumsy
Feckless
Fidgety
Fidgety, maybe
Foolish patient forgetting a time for treatment
Foolish to write about getting involved in it
French left without social skills
French port having diplomatic immunity?
Fumble-fingered
Georgia, university revolutionary lacking social graces
Glutinous
Glutinous, gooey
Gummy
Ham-fisted
Handling badly
Hard to open
Hardly relaxed
Header from Midlands team guy, unrelaxed
Heavy-handed Congress obstructing writer from the south
Incompetent
Incompetent, clumsy
Inept
Inept tailor made incomplete pants
It’s awkward being left in Calais
Klutzy
Lacking expertise
Lacking social polish
Lacking the knack
Left in Paris? That's awkward
Left in Paris? That's awkward!
Like a butterfingers
Like a sad sack
Like a stumblebum
Like Inspector Clouseau
Like the Keystone Kops
Like wiping one's dirty m
Maladroit
Maladroit fiance spat regularly
Nancy's left? That's awkward
Nervous
Nervous Shakespeare wife dismissed with some banter?
Not making a profit, perhaps? Awkward
Not refined
Not smooth
Not up to the mark in record time
Not very coordinated in an ugly upset
Notice French king tucking into whisky without much skill
Oafish
Old European region replacing Liberal with revolutionary? That's awkward
Popular old record, though initially unsuitable
Popular record, but ultimately unskilful
Popular record, though initially awkward
Restive
Restless as rebrewed ale is behind time coming in
Revealing unskilfulness in record time
Road looking hazy with one tucking into whisky? That’s inept
Side of Paris lacking in sophistication
Sinister Parisian displaying inelegance
Sister merrily lowering her head to be awkward
Socially awkward
Start off well — pint making you clumsy?
Tactless
Tactless - to admiral
Tending to bungle things
Tense speaker will, with a banterer
Toughish
Uncomfortable
Unpleasant moment in confines of study
Useless computers holding writer back
Useless exercise by pioneer oddly forgotten
Useless in record time
Useless writer is shown up in it
Where Rugby Union needs to go to make it break out is silly
Will knocked off early with a rib that's uncomfortable
Write about boring sex, which is awkward

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