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Look up: Awkward

  1. awkward
    [adj] - difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape 2. [adj] - lacking grace or skill in manner or movement or performance 3. [adj] - not elegant or graceful in expression 4. [adj] - hard to deal with 5. [adj] - causing inconvenience 6. [adj] - not at ease socially
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  2. awkward
    having long projecting parts and being,for that reason,difficult to handle Category: Mechanical engineering
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition

  3. Awkward
    Awk'ward (ak'weẽrd) adjective [ Awk + -ward .] 1. Wanting dexterity in the use of the hands, or of instruments; not dexterous; without skill; clumsy; wanting ease, grace, or effectiveness in movement; ungraceful; as, he was awkward at a trick; an awkward boy. « And dropped an awkward courtesy. Dryden. » 2. Not easily m ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/A/154

  4. awkward
    bunglesome adjective difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape; `an awkward bundle to carry`; `a load of bunglesome paraphernalia`; `clumsy wooden shoes`; `the cello, a rather ungainly instrument for a girl`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  5. awkward
    clumsy adjective not elegant or graceful in expression; `an awkward prose style`; `a clumsy apology`; `his cumbersome writing style`; `if the rumor is true, can anything be more inept than to repeat it now?`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  6. awkward
    embarrassing adjective 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`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  7. awkward
    ill at ease(p) adjective not at ease socially; unsure and constrained in manner; `awkward and reserved at parties`; `ill at ease among eddies of people he didn`t know`; `was always uneasy with strangers`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  8. awkward
    adjective causing inconvenience; `they arrived at an awkward time`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  9. awkward
    adjective lacking grace or skill in manner or movement or performance; `an awkward dancer`; `an awkward gesture`; `too awkward with a needle to make her own clothes`; `his clumsy fingers produced an awkward knot`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  10. Awkward
    • (a.) Perverse; adverse; untoward. • (a.) Wanting dexterity in the use of the hands, or of instruments; not dexterous; without skill; clumsy; wanting ease, grace, or effectiveness in movement; ungraceful; as, he was awkward at a trick; an awkward boy. • (a.) Not easily managed or effected; embarrassing.Awkward: words in the definiti...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning


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21 November 2009

This day in history:
On 21st November 1974 the Provisional IRA plants bombs in two Birmingham pubs: the Mulberry Bush and the Tavern in the Town. Twenty-one people die and 182 are injured. A few minutes before the explosions a warning had been telephoned to the local newspaper, the Birmingham Post and Mail, but it was far too late. The first Birmingham bomb, at the Mulberry Bush pub in the basement of the Rotunda, a 20-storey office and retail complex and it exploded six minutes after the telephone warning. There was not enough time for police to clear the area. Earlier that year nine soldiers were killed when a bomb exploded on a coach on the M62 near Bradford, while two bombs in Guildford killed four soldiers and injured scores of other people. read more

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