"awkward method" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this phrase when you are describing a method of doing something that is difficult or inefficient in some way. For example, "The company's awkward method of shipping caused multiple delays."
Byron's awkward, symbolic method of referring to places and events must have confused his readers.
Digging down into the container is awkward, this method is not.
Still, these people are word workers, not political fund-raisers, and however awkward their methods no one can argue that the money raised is not worthily spent.
"I don't think you have to invent a very awkward, difficult transport method," Van Tilburg told LiveScience.
Whether or not you snowmobiled before acquiring your disability, you may find this method awkward and need assistance until you get the hang of it.
Note: The barrel method looks awkward when your shirt has a traditional flat placket (usually with gauntlet button), as most French-cuffed shirts do.
This method is awkward to do because you have a longer distance to cover when you reach behind and grasp the foot of your opposite leg.
But in real-life situations both methods are awkward and annoying for anyone with fewer than three hands.
Hopefully that prevents a few parents from having to answer awkward questions about butchering methods or why a banana would need a hammock.
3) The manuscript needs to be edited heavily for typographical errors, awkward phrasing, incomplete experimental methods and claims that exceed the data.
However, since the objective function is only given at grid points, it is awkward to use optimization methods based on exploiting the piecewise continuity of the objective function (and its derivatives).
