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- adverb Obsolete form of
awkwardly .
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Examples
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'You must not then,' he said, 'be angry, if you find I have managed, at last, but aukwardly.
Camilla 2008
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That an interview to which she had so long looked forward, for which, with unwearied assiduity, she had so many years laboured to prepare herself, and which was the declared precursor of the most important era of her life, should pass over so abruptly, and be circumstanced so aukwardly, equally dispirited and confused her.
Camilla 2008
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His person was short, his countenance coarse and vulgar, his deportment that of a scholar aukwardly affecting the easy gentleman.
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You have very litle Inclination, to that noble and elegant Diversion, and whenever you have taken an Hand you have held it but aukwardly and played it, with a very uncourtly, and indifferent, Air.
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In particular the following words are as they appear in the original: antichamber aukwardly corruscations corse
The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency John Trusler
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This plate is likewise found in an intermediate state; the sky being made unnaturally obscure, with an attempt to introduce a shower of rain, and lightning very aukwardly represented.
The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency John Trusler
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Having exhausted every rational conjecture with regard to their situation, he resolved on reinforcing Admiral Cornwallis with his squadron; lest the combined fleet of France and Spain should, by approaching Brest, either facilitate the escape of the squadron so long confined by this commander's blockade of that port, or place him aukwardly between two fires.
The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 2 James Harrison
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Not young Lawyers in hir'd Robes and Plumes at a Masquerade could be less what they would seem, or more aukwardly personate the Characters they belong'd to.
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There is never one idea by the side of another; 'tis all entangled: and then he drives it so aukwardly upon conversation. '
Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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'You must not then,' he said, 'be angry, if you find I have managed, at last, but aukwardly.
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