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View synonyms for awkward age
awkward age
noun
- early adolescence.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of awkward age1
First recorded in 1890–95
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Example Sentences
I like to think of a crowd with pikes and torches shouting passages from "The Awkward Age."
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He was just of that awkward age when boys fancy themselves men, and men are not prepared to lower themselves to their level.
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It is both; and until the loss and the gain, the new and the old, are permanently separated and balanced, the awkward age lasts.
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Both were painfully conscious of their awkward age and the fact that they were no longer children.
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"The Awkward Age," fairy godmother and spotless lamb and all the rest of it.
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