The phrase "awkward location" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a place that is uncomfortable, inconvenient, or not suitable for a particular purpose.
Example: "The meeting was scheduled in an awkward location, making it difficult for everyone to attend."
Alternatives: "uncomfortable spot" or "inconvenient place".
It won respect for its Roman-style cuisine, but it never overcame its awkward location.
In retrospect, the market's backers say, they should have focused more on the feasibility of the project, given the awkward location.
It's a small shop in an awkward location -- there's a park across the street, but to get there you have to cross traffic that whips dangerously around the corner.
Music people who have spoken to the architect, James Stewart Polshek, say the project could end up costing as much as $50 million because of the awkward location and constraints of working around performance schedules.
That is why I spent so much time on my hands and knees during these two weeks: between constant interruptions in my high-speed Internet connection and the awkward location in most desktop computers of ports for attaching supplemental hardware, I was constantly crawling around behind my desktop to troubleshoot, update equipment and transfer songs onto a portable MP3 player.
The place's awkward location out on Philadelphia's Main Line, in Lower Merion Township; its admission-by-application-only policy; and, not least, its crabby, cultish aura, generated by the strange Dr. Albert Barnes and maintained since his death, in 1951 — these factors enfeebled my resolution to go there.
Following Hurricane Katrina, I worked for several months as a logistics coördinator on the Mississippi and Alabama coast assessing hundreds of stranded shrimp boats and pleasure craft, some in very awkward locations, including in marshes and underwater.
If all of the posters were in awkward locations like the ceiling or floor of the train, they most likely wouldn't be as successful at facilitating the learning experience for the passenger, no matter how clear the message.
Second, the only way to adjust the recording level is to use a tiny knob on the back of the tape deck, which seems scientifically engineered to be as awkward a location as possible.
The great size and strength of the waves, not to mention their awkward, manmade location, is also why lifeguards make all bodysurfers wear fins: so they can high-tail it in the event a set of waves starts crashing up against those jetties.
The notch isn't going away until the tech improves to a point that phone designers can find a place to house the front-facing camera without resorting to awkward or hidden locations.
