Usually means: Lacking skill, grace, or subtlety.
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▸ adjective:  Awkwardly expressed but not necessarily untrue; ill-phrased; inexpedient

Similar:
otiose, affabrous, extemporaneous, half-assed, wonky, off-handed, offhanded, quick-and-dirty, untimely, circumlocutionary, more...

Opposite:
artful, skillful, adept, proficient, masterful

Types:
clumsy, awkward, gauche, ungainly, graceless, more...

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Similar:
otiose, affabrous, extemporaneous, half-assed, wonky, off-handed, offhanded, quick-and-dirty, untimely, circumlocutionary, more...

Opposite:
artful, skillful, adept, proficient, masterful

Types:
clumsy, awkward, gauche, ungainly, graceless, more...



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