Sentence examples for awkward not to from inspiring English sources

But staying put while your hostess is passed out seems irremediably awkward, not to mention creepy.

For Goya's portraits can be bizarre, unflattering, wilfully awkward, not to say bewildering.

It seemed awkward not to acknowledge the strangeness of the evening, the abruptness of the way they had parted, but Hina winced.

The Chemist (Sphere, £20) by Stephenie Meyer, bestselling author of the Twilight saga, is an awkward, not to say preposterous, hybrid of action thriller and romantic suspense.

You could argue that Burton has been here before, in the awkward, not to say lethal, ache of Edward Scissorhands and his paternal creator.

Back on the 17th Poulter had hit a poor second, well up the severe bank on the right and he was left with an awkward, not to say dangerous, third.

"He basically was socially awkward, but not to the degree that would warrant suspicion of mass murder or any atrocity of this magnitude," said Billy Kromka, a research assistant at a lab where he spent several months last summer.

When being awkward, try not to do anything that can be interpreted as rude or intending you are unintelligent.

(R3) Another woman felt very awkward not being able to remember friends who visited her: " Well I had friends but I had a loss of memory when I came into this place… I've visitors that I can't remember who they are or what their name is - it's very awkward".

I ended up asking around my friends and actually, like three quarters of them agreed they don't feel comfortable sitting and ordering food alone – some were full grown adults (as apposed to my awkward not a teenager, not quite a 30 something year old self).

It would be really awkward for you not to accept the request if you ever wanted to come back.