What is another word for "awkward"?
Roget's Thesaurus (1911) lists these synonyms for "awkward": abrupt, absurdity, affectation, affected, amateur, anticlimax, artificial, ass, bad, barbarism, barbarous, baroque, bathos, bear, bizarre, blunderer, blunderhead, bombast, bombastic, break, buffoonery, bungler, burlesque, cacophony, clod, coach, comedy, comical, comicality, commit, conjurer, contemptible, crude, dancing, dauber, deceiver, derisive, dislocate, doggerel, droll.
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- Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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