adjective
- Not elegant or graceful in expression.
- usage: "an awkward prose style"; "a clumsy apology"; "his cumbersome writing style"; "if the rumor is true, can anything be more inept than to repeat it now"
- synonyms: awkward, clumsy, cumbersome, inapt, inept
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