The phrase "almost awkward" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation or feeling that is close to being awkward but not quite there, often conveying a sense of discomfort or hesitation.
Example: "The silence in the room was almost awkward as everyone waited for the speaker to begin."
Alternatives: "nearly uncomfortable" or "borderline awkward".
They have largely succeeded, by making routine questions seem almost awkward.
You're being shown something so personal, especially with chamber music, that it's almost awkward.
It's a close and almost awkward translation, nothing like her free and swaggery Catullus from an earlier book, "Men in the Off Hours".
The tough at-bat went to three and two, with two more full-count fouls, and Jeter looked almost awkward as he bent and swung at an inside curveball and got all of it, driving the ball into the second tier of seats in the left center-field bleachers.
The most notable work of this early period—rockers such as "This Year's Girl" and "Lip Service," deceptively upbeat pop tunes such as "(The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes," and rapid-fire, soul-inflected songs such as "Black and White World"—featured appealing melodic bass lines that complemented an energetic rhythm guitar and a stylized, almost awkward vocal style.
Her unfolding sentences can get almost awkward as Moxley figures out how to say just what she feels, and their intricacies — sometimes elegant, sometimes tangled — show that ideas, beliefs and abstract hypotheses can really change how people behave.
It's almost impossible to not make an awkward start at this, so be gentle on yourself.
About the centerfolds of the 1960s, Mr. Theroux writes: "In many cases these centerfolds are the epitome of American loveliness, our very own apsaras, with their creamy skins and bright smiles, the almost-awkward willingness in their postures, not hookers but prom queens and biker babes.
But I can't, which is almost as awkward and embarrassing as it must have been when these guys realized one of them was being styled as the "new Johnny Depp" and the other as the "new Jonas step-Brother".
But I can't, which is almost as awkward and embarrassing as it must have been when these guys realised one of them was being styled as the "new Johnny Depp" and the other as the "new Jonas step-Brother".
#proud daddy ☺️ The comments of Mr Bieber - at once embarrassing, creepy and just plain strange - were almost as awkward as the New York Daily News's high-minded feature that included full-frontal photos of the 21-year-old singer while he was on holiday in Bora Bora, in the South Pacific.
