The phrase "awkward argument" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where a discussion or debate is uncomfortable or clumsy, often due to the nature of the topic or the way it is presented.
Example: "During the meeting, the team found themselves in an awkward argument about the project's direction, leading to an uncomfortable silence."
Alternatives: "uncomfortable debate" or "clumsy discussion".
This is an awkward argument for Cameron at the moment.
Instead of having to make a choice between this new missile or that old tank, the Pentagon will doubtless get both.But Mr Rumsfeld's rescued reputation is not merely a result of standing by his post, and dodging an awkward argument.
In any case, it would be an awkward argument for anyone to make who also argues that the absence of such attacks proves that the "war on terror" has been a success).
But there is another awkward argument against the idea that time travel might become possible in the distant future as technology advances.
As Michael and Jan drive home together, they have an awkward argument regarding their future together.
"You understand the English language, right?" asked King condescendingly during an awkward argument.
We make these sometimes awkward arguments that are less than pure consistency.
Which is to say that, after the low-level angst of an afternoon of awkward relatives, arguments over how to carve the turkey et al, who isn't secretly yearning to experience the kind of ludicrously, liberatingly awful day which once resulted in Peggy Mitchell taking a baseball bat to the Queen Vic? No? OK, just me then.
It makes gun-control advocates deploy awkward, hypocritical arguments in order to fit them within the Constitution's limits.
This whole segment was basically set up to sow dissent, because the world really, really needed one more awkward and tendentious argument.
There are loud arguments, awkward toasts, bad sex, confrontations with the help and a few moments of serene and luminous bliss.
