as in uncomfortable
lacking social grace and assurance
an eminent scientist who was wooden in front of television cameras
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Recent Examples of wooden
Exhibits in La Nube lean into Southwest and Mexican motifs, such as life-size wooden models of native foxes and desert cats, while also using cutting-edge sonic, robotic, and digital technologies in its hands-on lab spaces.
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Sunshine Flint, AFAR Media, 13 Feb. 2025
The performers draw and write on a 4-by-4-foot wooden plank with charcoal; all the while, contact mics at each corner of the plank amplify the surface sounds on four correlating speakers in the Constellation space.
—Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 12 Feb. 2025
The houses resembled mobile homes or shipping containers and had a basic kitchen, a wooden dining table with a bench, and a chair.
—Araceli Cruz, Rolling Stone, 4 Feb. 2025
Menu items include sea urchin bruschettas, fresh clams, and oodles of oysters, all served on communal wooden tables overlooking the vineyards.
—Travel + Leisure Staff, Travel + Leisure, 4 Feb. 2025
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Sunshine Flint, AFAR Media, 13 Feb. 2025
The performers draw and write on a 4-by-4-foot wooden plank with charcoal; all the while, contact mics at each corner of the plank amplify the surface sounds on four correlating speakers in the Constellation space.
—Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 12 Feb. 2025
The houses resembled mobile homes or shipping containers and had a basic kitchen, a wooden dining table with a bench, and a chair.
—Araceli Cruz, Rolling Stone, 4 Feb. 2025
Menu items include sea urchin bruschettas, fresh clams, and oodles of oysters, all served on communal wooden tables overlooking the vineyards.
—Travel + Leisure Staff, Travel + Leisure, 4 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for wooden
Adjective
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From tornadoes to mudslides and floods and more floods, Kentucky has endured an unlucky streak, stretching back too many uncomfortable years to count, of being pounded by one climate disaster after another.—
Tricia Fulks Kelley,
New York Times,
17 Feb. 2025
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Healthy arrogance is a term that makes some people uncomfortable.—
Dominique Fluker,
Essence,
17 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Relentless, hi-def gore is The Monkey’s greatest achievement, but all the blood-spatter in the world couldn’t redeem its clumsy plotting, frat-boy humor, and feigned memento mori.—
Madison Bloom,
Pitchfork,
7 Feb. 2025
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Game to game, characters like the speedy Pete Wheeler or clumsy Angela Delvecchio were true to their traits across each release.—
Jake Lang,
Rolling Stone,
7 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Bochner began working in the wake of Abstract Expressionism, whose emphasis on artistic genius, painterly excellence, and formalism left many of his generation feeling uneasy.—
Alex Greenberger,
ARTnews.com,
14 Feb. 2025
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Arms control advocates, as well as a significant portion of liberal policymakers, fear doing so undermines the uneasy trust of mutual vulnerability and encourages nuclear foes to develop dangerous new technologies to defeat defense systems.—
Davis Winkie,
USA TODAY,
12 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Comfortable familiarity and an awkward desire to escape co-exist like the two quotes at the start, both true in incongruous harmony.—
David Opie,
IndieWire,
18 Feb. 2025
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Where some toiletry bags end up having an awkward shape that won’t easily fit into your luggage, these are the opposite.—
Lydia Mansel,
Travel + Leisure,
18 Feb. 2025
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The black metal bed has a minimalist design that complements rustic and industrial interiors.—
Isabel Garcia,
People.com,
15 Feb. 2025
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Oakland has a new seafood-centric bistro that performs a lovely balancing act between rustic and refined, Sirene.—
John Metcalfe,
The Mercury News,
14 Feb. 2025
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“Wooden.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wooden. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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