Adverb
in an awkward manner
Source: WordNetCynics are - beneath it all - only idealists with awkwardly high standards. Alain de Botton
Do we want to put pedagogy into the hands of the philosophers? Nothing less than that! They would behave themselves awkwardly enough. It shall be entrusted only to those who are more than philosophers, who are in that respect more even than humanists or realists. Max Stirner
I was humiliated for them, for their apparent insensibility. But I was mistaken in my anxiety - their wish to help, to show her their concern, was real, their feelings were true and lasting, no matter how awkwardly expressed; their love and tenderness and wish to help were from the heart. Katherine Anne Porter
The poet is intimate with truth, while the scientist approaches awkwardly. Come someday to my laboratory and see the unequivocable testimony of the crescograph. Jagadish Chandra Bose
Once the others were below, Hazel and Leo faced each other awkwardly. They were alone except for Coach Hedge, who was back on the quarterdeck singing thetheme song. The coach had changed the words to:, and Leo really didn't want to know why. Rick Riordan
We work with every one of them to see if their character wouldn't say a certain thing or if something is worded awkwardly - we work with them to rectify that. Simon Pegg