The phrase "awkward explanation" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where someone has provided a clumsy or uncomfortable clarification or justification for something.
Example: "During the meeting, his awkward explanation of the project's failure left everyone feeling confused and uneasy."
Alternatives: "clumsy clarification" or "uncomfortable justification.".
It took some minutes of awkward explanation, laced with Reagan charm, before she thawed.
A playful push from a boy would bring an awkward explanation of how touching is against my religion.
Mr Tremonti claims to have paid him rent, but in cash an awkward explanation for the man charged with ensuring that Italians pay their taxes.More important is Mr Berlusconi's own vulnerability, which is increasing as supporters begin to fret over his waning popularity.
Boy, Snow, Bird is an impressive performance marred only by the well-meaning but awkward explanation given at the end of the book for Frank's abusiveness, which attempts to mirror the theme of racial passing with a parallel subplot about gender.
Finding it in rats, though, erases the need for some awkward explanation of our ability and "makes evolutionary sense". .
The Manicheans proposed a powerful, if somewhat mythical and philosophically awkward explanation of the problem of evil: there is a perpetual struggle between co-eternal principles of Light and Darkness (good and evil, respectively), and our souls are particles of Light which have become trapped in the Darkness of the physical world.
The, uh, colorful street life, meanwhile, would hardly intrude on a 1-year-old's consciousness; no awkward explanations necessary.
Family dysfunction is much more widespread than we realise, and for many, this is not the most wonderful time of the year, but a difficult maze of expectations and awkward explanations.
This would make for severely awkward explanations, or could cause a huge scene, which, in that case, would just make it worse for you.
A sample joke: "Our family videos look like a movie about a single mother" — followed by an awkward product explanation.
It's sometimes just offering, "Yes, he's autistic," as an explanation in awkward situations because more than one doctor has said he may be on the spectrum, but they can't diagnose him officially because he is too social.
