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- adjective
superlative form ofawkward : mostawkward .
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Examples
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Observe -- a horse is certainly the awkwardest of all animals with his hands.
Carolyn Vega: John Ruskin's "Great Horse-Controversy" Carolyn Vega 2011
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In honor of Diddy's appearance in the new film "Get Him to the Greek," we've compiled a list of the awkwardest TV and movie appearances by rappers.
List: The five most awkward performances by rappers-turned-actors 2010
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The ugliest, awkwardest frightfullest being, you can imagine.
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Boncassen could be graceful as a nymph in doing the awkwardest thing!
The Duke's Children 2004
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But I must observe that five is the very awkwardest of all possible numbers to sit down to table; and I cannot but be surprised that such an elegant lady as Mrs. Grant should not contrive better!
Mansfield Park 2004
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A few lessons in the business of Harlequin would teach many a young man, for instance, the simple lesson that arms may be moved with advantage from the shoulder as well as from the elbow; and so we should get rid of one of the awkwardest, ugliest, and commonest of modern stage tricks.
A History of Pantomime R. J. Broadbent
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He was the crudest, awkwardest, greenest candidate that had ever put in appearance on the Trumbull gridiron.
Over the Line Harold Morrow Sherman
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Toffy apples are about the awkwardest thing imaginable to carry.
A Yankee in the Trenches Robert Derby Holmes
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The village is built on the awkwardest bit of ground possible, up and down on the side of a steep ravine, one house apparently standing on the roof of another; and it takes half a mile of real hard climbing to get from the bottom of the town to the top.
Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern Edward Burnett Tylor
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I've made expert dancers out of the awkwardest men!
King Arthur's Socks and Other Village Plays Floyd Dell 1928
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