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  • 21Awkwardly — Awkward Awk ward ([add]k we[ e]rd), a. [Awk + ward.] 1. Wanting dexterity in the use of the hands, or of instruments; not dexterous; without skill; clumsy; wanting ease, grace, or effectiveness in movement; ungraceful; as, he was awkward at a… …

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  • 22Awkwardness — Awkward Awk ward ([add]k we[ e]rd), a. [Awk + ward.] 1. Wanting dexterity in the use of the hands, or of instruments; not dexterous; without skill; clumsy; wanting ease, grace, or effectiveness in movement; ungraceful; as, he was awkward at a… …

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  • 23inept — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. incompetent, unskilled, clumsy, all thumbs. See unskillfulness, folly, inelegance. Ant., skillful. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Unsuitable] Syn. not adapted, inappropriate, out of place; see unfit 2 …

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  • 24rude — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. barbarous, crude, primitive, rough, rustic; harsh, rugged; coarse, uncouth; discourteous, uncivil, insolent. See vulgarity, courtesy, inelegance, formlessness. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Boorish]… …

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  • 25Ugliness — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Ugliness >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 ugliness ugliness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 deformity deformity inelegance Sgm: N 1 acomia acomia Sgm: N 1 disfigurement disfigurement &c.(blemish) 848 Sgm: N 1 …

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  • 26Vulgarity — (Roget s Thesaurus) >Bad taste. < N PARAG:Vulgarity >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 vulgarity vulgarity vulgarism Sgm: N 1 barbarism barbarism Vandalism Gothicism| =>! Sgm: N 1 mauvis gout mauvis gout bad taste Sgm: N …

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  • 27inelegant — a. 1. Ungraceful, awkward, ungainly, uncouth, homely, clumsy, rude, coarse. 2. Unpolished, uncourtly, unrefined, ungraceful, rough, homespun, uncouth, ungainly, awkward. 3. Plain, homely, awkward looking. 4. Stiff, constrained, harsh, crude, bald …

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  • 28sprawl — /sprɔl / (say sprawl) verb (i) 1. to be stretched out in irregular or ungraceful movements, as the limbs. 2. to lie or sit with the limbs stretched out in a careless or ungraceful posture. 3. to fall in such a manner. 4. to work one s way… …

  • 29stiff — [adj1] hard, inflexible annealed, arthritic, benumbed, brittle, buckram, cemented, chilled, congealed, contracted, creaky, firm, fixed, frozen, graceless, hardened, immalleable, impliable, incompliant, indurate, inelastic, jelled, mechanical,… …

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  • 30sprawl´er — sprawl «sprl», verb, noun. –v.i. 1. to toss or spread the limbs about, like an infant or an animal lying on its back: »reading contentedly with his legs sprawled over the arm of the couch. 2. to lie or sit with the limbs spread out, especially… …

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