The phrase "awkward term" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a word or phrase that feels uncomfortable or clumsy in a particular context.
Example: "The phrase 'toilet humor' is often considered an awkward term in formal discussions about comedy."
Alternatives: "clumsy expression" or "uncomfortable phrase".
Even "narrator" seems an awkward term here.
The awkward term never caught on, and neither has Joe Romm's preferred term "hell or highwater" or "global weirding" (coined by Friedman).
The awkward term never caught on, and neither has Joe Romm's preferred term "hell or highwater" or "global weirding" (coined by Friedman).
The presumption has become that such regimes will endure.By contrast, "globalisation", that awkward term that covers the freer movement of goods, capital, people and ideas around the globe, has become the governing principle of commerce.
Heti's narrator, who seems all but indistinguishable from Heti herself, calls it, at various points, "a book to prevent future tears," "a prophylactic," "a written defence," and "a wrestling place". Even "narrator" seems an awkward term here.
With work lives strung together by three-month contracts, some temps have worked at Microsoft for more than five years and have seized on an awkward term to describe their awkward status: permatemps.
The change will "inject new excitement in the contest" the organisers explained in fittingly awkward terms.
In an interview on the NBC program "Today" recently, Mr. Fualaau tried to explain whether he and Ms. Letourneau might reunite by saying, "I mean, we left on awkward terms".
Quality assurance in non-institutional learning is one of several awkward terms attached to granting equivalency to similar learning within an academic institution.
That includes both victims of mass shootings and conventional homicides (my somewhat-awkward term for homicides other than those from mass shootings).
Come to think of it, even the number one film is awkward in terms of how we usually think about science-fiction.
