The phrase "awkward by" is not correct and it would not be used in written English.
Instead, you would use the phrase "awkwardly." For example, "She laughed awkwardly by the end of the joke."
Following those titles are "Doctored Drawings" by Dr. Mark Podwal, a collection of drawings on politics and medicine, and "Awkward" by Mary Cappello, cultural criticism about the state of awkwardness.
Collins denied that he felt awkward by Mutombo's talk.
Victoria Glendinning, who worked as an editorial assistant on the TLS under Gross, recalled him as "brilliant and unpredictable", yet sometimes made awkward by "stress and diffidence".
It's a storyline that required some intimacy, a situation made less awkward by Socha and Coel's obvious ease with each other.
He spoke in his customary deliberate manner, the long pauses made all the more awkward by the circumstances, with one silver lining.
Others tried to be supportive but ended up making me feel awkward by always starting a conversation with "how are you doing?" accompanied with sympathetic puppy eyes.
More immediately, a potentially awkward by-election looms for both Labour and the LibDems.
Don't try to get around having an awkward conversation by retaliating at your Mom by telling her friends something embarrassing about her, (like menopause).
His instructions were met with awkward laughter by the assembly of news media.
This back-and-forth could make for awkward moments by Tuesday.
Large, awkward canvases by Roberta Lawson aim for a frisson of sexual tension but fail to deliver.
