The phrase "awkward relief" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a feeling of relief that is accompanied by discomfort or unease, often in a social context.
Example: "After stumbling over my words during the presentation, I felt an awkward relief when the audience laughed, but I wasn't sure if they were laughing with me or at me."
Alternatives: "uncomfortable relief" or "clumsy relief".
The movie throws into awkward relief the traditions of cinematic aging — the way in which Estella, say, in David Lean's "Great Expectations," jumps from being Jean Simmons to being Valerie Hobson.
Before the second plane hit, survivors said, the mood in the sky lobby was awkward: relief at the announcements that their building was safer than walking on the street, and fear that it really wasn't.
Ezra Miller is the perfect, awkward comic relief as The Flash.
Even now, despite a new, rather awkward populist tone, serious relief for homeowners is lacking and financial regulatory reform is in danger of being hijacked by banking lobbyists and partisan politics.
Yet these young mourners do find some comic relief in the awkward re-entry into the dating world.
Mr. Murfi provides much of the antic comic relief as the awkward Patsy, who keeps returning to the sisters and their story, a pile of fish his absurd pretense, as if called by fate.
Most often this will quickly untangle the dragnet and result in sighs of relief and an awkward chuckle.
But with context -- found best in memory -- the mood seemed awkward, as though teetering between sorrow and relief.
Finally, in 1958, her condition was recognized and she underwent the first of two operations for the relief of her tremors and her awkward gait.
Stephen Colbert and Nick Kroll challenged celebrities to share awkward puberty photos to raise money for hurricane relief.
In between confronting the hard truths of the campaign and insulting American voters, Mitt offered some comic relief to the crowd, revealing that sometimes awkward but striking humor insiders of his campaign so often boast about.
