uncomfortable situation

collocation in English

meaningsofuncomfortableandsituation

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uncomfortable
adjective
uk
/ʌnˈkʌmf.tə.bəl/us
/ʌnˈkʌm.fɚ.t̬ə/
not feeling comfortable and pleasant, or not making you feel comfortable ...
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situation
noun[C]
uk
/ˌsɪtʃ.uˈeɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌsɪtʃ.uˈeɪ.ʃən/
the set of things that are happening and the conditions that exist at a particular time ...
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(Definition ofuncomfortableandsituationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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For the state's bioethics and health law community, it has been anuncomfortablesituation.
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In the housing field, as in many others, we have inherited anuncomfortablesituation.
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It leaves us completely in the dark as regards that, and in a mostuncomfortablesituationto what our position may be in the future.
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It seems to me to be rather anuncomfortablesituation.
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There might be anuncomfortablesituationbut one does not wish to make a definite assertion that someone has done something.
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It can be a veryuncomfortablesituation, and perhaps it is intimidation which can erode the morale of the civilian public more than anything else.
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With this theory, the father could disclaim all responsibility and even the mother could distance herself from anuncomfortablesituation.
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Therefore, why should our troops out there suffer this further financial hardship, in view of their presentuncomfortablesituation?
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This is anuncomfortablesituation, because no additional training will do them any good.
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However, it is anuncomfortablesituationwhich none of us would have wished to occur.
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When they get into an inconvenient oruncomfortablesituation, perhaps with tonsillitis or a hernia, they have to take their turn in a medical queue.
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That sounds a somewhatuncomfortablesituation.
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Is this not a somewhatuncomfortablesituation?
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The pavement widths on either side of the bridge are narrow and thereby creating theuncomfortablesituationof close passes with traffic.
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The person then would find himself in anuncomfortablesituationdue to a full mouth and no milk to wash it down.
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This is a veryuncomfortablesituationfor guests as the gondolas swing uncontrollably until the wheel comes to a halt.
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Theuncomfortablesituationis resolved by the arrival of the ladies' dancing master.
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When put into anuncomfortablesituation, such as having to walk alone at night, she is noticeably jumpy and is prone to screaming.
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Legislators found themselves in an unusual anduncomfortablesituation.
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The two couples try to overcome theuncomfortablesituationand are able to laugh about the absurdity of it.
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