The phrase "awkward figure" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone whose physical appearance or posture is uncomfortable or not graceful.
Example: "Despite her talent, she often felt self-conscious about her awkward figure when performing on stage."
Alternatives: "clumsy shape" or "ungainly form".
Dando cuts an awkward figure.
But he was also a strange, shy, awkward figure, apparently unwilling to play the promotional game.
He started out only six months ago struggling to overcome his image as an awkward figure running a costly, uninspired campaign based on the idea of entitlement.
Sadly the Briton has cut an awkward figure among rivals who are sensitive to any weaknesses and eager to exploit them.
With his dark blue suit and crisp white shirt, he cuts an awkward figure among the Australians, with their relaxed manner and khaki shorts.
Tom Hollander does everything possible to stifle one's doubts by making Ned a halting, socially awkward figure consumed by his work.
But engravings such as the Adoration of the Magi (c. 1512), cluttered with awkward figures and architectural backgrounds, indicate a decline in conceptual power that lasted until about 1519, when he engraved the Dance of the Magdalene.
Not since Alexander Pope ended the 18th-century craze for artfully-trimmed hedges by lampooning aristocrats for turning shrubs into "awkward figures of men" has British topiary faced such a grave threat.
Ryder in particular, with his crude, encrusted surfaces, awkward figures and visionary eccentricity, appears out of step with his times, unless one accepts the contention that his art was, in the words of the catalog's author, Elizabeth Prelinger, a "spiritual corrective to the extravagant materialism of the Gilded Age".
Caliban was a comedian's role, played by actors "known for their awkward figures".
Awkward action figure anatomy combined with screaming mouths and shiny, shiny muscles.
