Difficult militarist abandoning first room in hospital (7)
I believe the answer is:
awkward
'difficult' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'militarist abandoning first room in hospital' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'first' could be 'a' and 'a' is found within the answer.
'room' could be 'ward' (I've seen this before) and 'ward' is present in the answer.
This may be the basis of clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for awkward that I've seen before include "Clumsy - problematic" , "Clumsy or embarrassing" , "Lacking dexterity" , "Clumsy and ungainly" , "Uncooperative" .)