awkwards
awkward, embarrassing, difficult.
Adjective
- awkward, embarrassing, difficult.
- This : " let her own works praise her in the gates" - / Where (being fifty three — these awkwards dates !) - 1877, Edward Williams Johns, The Silver Wedding: A Romaunt Du Moyen Âge, page 190:
- We had some awkwards bits to get over to-day. The path at best is a track not two feet wide on the mountain side, and there is no escape from the constantly recurring moraines, with their sharp deep sides eaten away by...
- In the two solutions shown above (a and b) , the first is awkwards, needing a ramp and handrails extending out from the building. In the second, a simple ramp cut into the first stair resulted in a successful solution,...
Origin
From awkward + -s. The adjective is formed on the analogy of adverbs and prepositions such as towards, forwards etc.
Forms
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Noun
- plural of awkward.