| awkward | (adjective) lacking grace or skill in manner or movement or performance | - |
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| (adjective) hard to deal with; especially causing pain or embarrassment | Synonyms: embarrassing, sticky, unenviable |
| (adjective) causing inconvenience | - |
| (adjective) not elegant or graceful in expression | Synonyms: clumsy, cumbersome, ill-chosen, inapt, inept |
| (adjective) socially uncomfortable; unsure and constrained in manner | Synonyms: ill at ease, uneasy |
| (adjective) difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape | Synonyms: bunglesome, clumsy, ungainly |
| awkwardly | (adverb) in an awkward manner | - |
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| awkwardness | (noun) the carriage of someone whose movements and posture are ungainly or inelegant | Synonyms: clumsiness |
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| (noun) the quality of an embarrassing situation | Synonyms: nuisance value |
| (noun) trouble in carrying or managing caused by bulk or shape | Synonyms: cumbersomeness, unwieldiness |
| (noun) the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment) | Synonyms: clumsiness, gracelessness, stiffness |
| (noun) unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training | Synonyms: clumsiness, ineptitude, ineptness, maladroitness, slowness |
| bowknot | (noun) a knot with two loops and loose ends; used to tie shoelaces | Synonyms: bow |
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| drawknife | (noun) a woodworker's knife to shave surfaces | Synonyms: drawshave |
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| gawk | (noun) an awkward stupid person | Synonyms: clod, goon, lout, lubber, lummox, lump, oaf, stumblebum |
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| (verb) look with amazement; look stupidly | Synonyms: gape, gawp, goggle |
| gawker | (noun) a spectator who stares stupidly without intelligent awareness | - |
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| gawkiness | (noun) the carriage of someone whose movements and posture are extremely ungainly and inelegant | Synonyms: ungainliness |
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| gawky | (adjective) lacking grace in movement or posture | Synonyms: clumsy, clunky, ungainly, unwieldy |
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| goshawk | (noun) large hawk of Eurasia and North America used in falconry | Synonyms: Accipiter gentilis |
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| hawk | (noun) diurnal bird of prey typically having short rounded wings and a long tail | - |
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| (noun) a square board with a handle underneath; used by masons to hold or carry mortar | Synonyms: mortarboard |
| (noun) an advocate of an aggressive policy on foreign relations | Synonyms: war hawk |
| (verb) clear mucus or food from one's throat | Synonyms: clear the throat |
| (verb) hunt with hawks | - |
| (verb) sell or offer for sale from place to place | Synonyms: huckster, monger, peddle, pitch, vend |
| hawkbill | (noun) pugnacious tropical sea turtle with a hawk-like beak; source of food and the best tortoiseshell | Synonyms: Eretmochelys imbricata, hawksbill, hawksbill turtle, tortoiseshell turtle |
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| hawkbit | (noun) any of various common wildflowers of the genus Leontodon; of temperate Eurasia to Mediterranean regions | - |
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| hawker | (noun) someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals) | Synonyms: packman, peddler, pedlar, pitchman |
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| (noun) a person who breeds and trains hawks and who follows the sport of falconry | Synonyms: falconer |
| hawking | (noun) the act of selling goods for a living | Synonyms: peddling, vending, vendition |
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| hawkish | (adjective) disposed to warfare or hard-line policies | Synonyms: militant, warlike |
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| hawkishness | (noun) any political orientation favoring aggressive policies | - |
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| hawkmoth | (noun) any of various moths with long narrow forewings capable of powerful flight and hovering over flowers to feed | Synonyms: hawk moth, hummingbird moth, sphingid, sphinx moth |
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| hawksbill | (noun) pugnacious tropical sea turtle with a hawk-like beak; source of food and the best tortoiseshell | Synonyms: Eretmochelys imbricata, hawkbill, hawksbill turtle, tortoiseshell turtle |
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| hawkshaw | (noun) someone who is a detective | Synonyms: dick, gumshoe |
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| hawkweed | (noun) any of numerous often hairy plants of the genus Hieracium having yellow or orange flowers that resemble the dandelion | - |
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| (noun) any of various plants of the genus Pilosella | - |
| mawkish | (adjective) effusively or insincerely emotional | Synonyms: bathetic, drippy, hokey, kitschy, maudlin, mushy, sappy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, slushy, soppy, soupy |
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| mawkishly | (adverb) in a mawkish and emotional manner | Synonyms: drippily |
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| mawkishness | (noun) falsely emotional in a maudlin way | Synonyms: drippiness, mushiness, sentimentality, sloppiness, soupiness |
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| (noun) insincere pathos | Synonyms: bathos |
| mohawk | (noun) haircut in which the head is shaved except for a band of hair down the middle of the scalp | Synonyms: mohawk haircut |
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| mollymawk | (noun) large web-footed birds of the Southern Hemisphere having long narrow wings; noted for powerful gliding flight | Synonyms: albatross |
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| nighthawk | (noun) mainly nocturnal North American goatsucker | Synonyms: bullbat, mosquito hawk |
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| (noun) a person who likes to be active late at night | Synonyms: night owl, nightbird |
| pawky | (adjective) cunning and sly | - |
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| squawk | (noun) informal terms for objecting | Synonyms: beef, bitch, gripe, kick |
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| (noun) the noise of squawking | - |
| (verb) complain | Synonyms: beef, bellyache, bitch, crab, gripe, grouse, holler |
| (verb) utter a harsh abrupt scream | Synonyms: screak, screech, skreak, skreigh |
| squawker | (noun) the loudspeaker on an intercom or public address system | Synonyms: intercom speaker, squawk box |
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| (noun) a person given to excessive complaints and crying and whining | Synonyms: bellyacher, complainer, crybaby, grumbler, moaner, sniveller, whiner |
| squawky | (adjective) like the cackles or squawks a hen makes especially after laying an egg | Synonyms: cackly |
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| tomahawk | (noun) weapon consisting of a fighting ax; used by North American Indians | Synonyms: hatchet |
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| (verb) cut with a tomahawk | - |
| (verb) kill with a tomahawk | - |