The phrase "awkward legacy" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation or outcome that is uncomfortable or difficult, often resulting from past actions or decisions.
Example: "The company is struggling to move forward due to the awkward legacy of its previous management's controversial decisions."
Alternatives: "uncomfortable inheritance" or "clumsy heritage".
Such is Mr Fujimori's awkward legacy.
But it left an awkward legacy of stubborn inflation, messy local-government finances and skewed investment.The central government does not want to repeat that mistake.
Given that actually using a phone while driving a car has been illegal since 2003, you assume it's an awkward legacy from a lazy boardroom.
The recent slowdown of credit, and the pain now being felt by some borrowers, may be the beginning of the correction.A final awkward legacy of the dash for the euro is that the Portuguese government, like all others in the euro area, now has only one tool of macroeconomic policy left: budgetary policy.
Puerto Rico, an awkward legacy of the United States' 1898 testosterone spill, the Spanish-American War, is about to teach two things that few Americans know: If conditions get bad enough there, its residents, who are American citizens, can come here.
In the Americas themselves, decades of US meddling have left an awkward legacy.
In 1995, corralled into an airbase in Dayton, Ohio, their leaders agreed to a complex set of formulae that ended the conflict but left Bosnia with an awkward political legacy, formally splitting it into the Serb-dominated Republika Srpska (RS) and a federation of Bosniaks (Bosnian Muslims) and Croats.Immediately after the war Bosnia drifted.
It must be a little awkward, given the legacy of the X-Files, the sci-fi series in which Anderson played the icy agent Dana Scully from 1993 to 2002.
Ripley's slow-motion suicide dive in Alien3, for example, more than offsets the confused plotting and awkward characterisation - a legacy of well-documented behind-the-scenes interference.
His legacy is awkward because even though Napoleon put in place many of the institutions which make up modern-day France (the Banque de France, departments, Legion d'honneur and so on), he also crowned himself emperor and waged war on the rest of Europe.
But the most awkward part of Mr Tato's troubled legacy is Wind, Enel's telecoms arm (of which France Telecom owns 27%).
