awkwardnesses

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awkwardnesses

1. plural of awkwardness
   • 1981, John H. Schaar, Legitimacy in the Modern State, page 1:

     This is not because I love even my errors and awkwardnesses, but because so much needs improvement that silent correction would have amounted to deceit and explicit correction would have made the whole a labyrinth.