• adj.
    ⦿hard to deal with; especially causing pain or embarrassment
    lexical concept
  • a sticky question
  • an awkward pause followed his remark
  • awkward (or embarrassing or difficult) moments in the discussion
  • in the unenviable position of resorting to an act he had planned to save for the climax of the campaign

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechadjective satellite
ontolex:lexicalized sense
  1. enl:awkward
  2. enl:embarrassing
  3. enl:sticky
  4. enl:unenviable
wn:interlingual indexili:i4131

Other

skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:label
  • awkwardembarrassingstickyunenviable
  • embarrassing