The child was unusually maladroit on the playing field today. From LearnThat.org.
A maladroit movement of his hand caused the car to swerve. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : to handle a diplomatic crisis in a very maladroit way. From Dictionary.com.
We sometimes refer to this kind of behavioral mistake as "maladroit". From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-05-01] Reference
Q: You talked with journalists and jihadists and found some odd things, such as maladroit bombers. From Wordnik.com. [SFGate: Top News Stories] Reference
"maladroit" in their handling of the issue - said immigration had been good for Britain. From Wordnik.com. [icCoventry] Reference
He is close-minded and simplistic, verbally maladroit. From Wordnik.com. [Terry Curtis Fox: Not Gonzales, Not Rove. Bush.] Reference
It could have been fussy and maladroit, but it is not. From Wordnik.com. [A Wonder From Any Angle] Reference
Meadows is also arrogant, insecure and socially maladroit. From Wordnik.com. [Giles Foden's 'Turbulence,' a stormy novel about D-Day and its weather] Reference
Why should we stumble about like a couple of maladroit fencers?. From Wordnik.com. [Scales of Justice]
Il est toujours dans les etoiles ce qui le rend tres maladroit. From Wordnik.com. [pinku-tk Diary Entry] Reference
Most damaging of all were his maladroit dealings with the army. From Wordnik.com. [The Double Life of Benazir Bhutto] Reference
Nixon offended as much by being maladroit as by being malevolent. From Wordnik.com. [He's Not So Dumb] Reference
Vengeful punishment is ethically maladroit and economically foolish. From Wordnik.com. [Life On The Shelf] Reference
He had let a problem become a crisis by maladroit handling of his men. From Wordnik.com. [The Pillars of the Earth]
Madaleine was so inopportunely interrupted by the maladroit entrance of. From Wordnik.com. [Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes] Reference
He asked a thousand pardons of Madame la Duchesse for being so maladroit. From Wordnik.com. [The Newcomes] Reference
Hillary Clinton's recent foray was a veritable textbook of maladroit maneuvers. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Brenner: Afghanistan: Obama's Fantasy Island] Reference
The Monster's maliciously maladroit maneuverings: still morally mauling Miami!!!!. From Wordnik.com. [American Tabloid]
Demoux landed with a maladroit stumble as Bilg's sword smashed into the stone ground. From Wordnik.com. [Mistborn] Reference
They swarmed loud, uncouth about the temple, their heads thickplotting under maladroit silk hats. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
Seen in this light, Power's characterization of Clinton as a "monster" is not so terribly maladroit. From Wordnik.com. [Logan Nakyanzi Pollard: Democrats Diminishing Horizon] Reference
Oh! monsieur le marquis, répondit le spirituel auteur du "Barbier de Séville," je suis bien maladroit!. From Wordnik.com. [French Conversation and Composition] Reference
SQUIRE OF MALWOOD eagerly seized BEACH's maladroit phrase about "the other side," and made great play with it. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, Or the London Charivari, Volume 102, April 16, 1892] Reference
And one of them is that this body politic is cerebrally maladroit and in desperate need of disarmament itself. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 15, 2003] Reference
My big worry, is that Mr Bean/Stalin, will find a way of suspending elections to keep his maladroit crew in power. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Another maladroit sentence was Bush's assertion "that Iraqis are courageous and that they need additional skills.". From Wordnik.com. [Walter Shapiro: Rhetorical Verdict: A C-Minus Speech] Reference
A candle stood in the neglected hearth, its flickering flame glassily reflected in the cases of maladroit animals. From Wordnik.com. [The Saliva Tree]
"My big worry, is that Mr Bean/Stalin, will find a way of suspending elections to keep his maladroit crew in power.". From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
He notes later, however, that while it is "a maladroit, mawkish novel," its popularity and influence are inarguable. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-01-01] Reference
They may repeat this feat in 2012, if President Obama proves as rigid and maladroit in his second biennium as in his first. From Wordnik.com. [Six and Tired] Reference
Not a promising start, but Hayes had a sense of humor, because he proceeded to interview me in spite of my maladroit entrance. From Wordnik.com. [How Groucho Marx Got Me an Editorial Job at Playboy] Reference
Yet once World War II broke out it was Gandhi who became politically maladroit, in ways that Mr. Herman brings out devastatingly. From Wordnik.com. [Clash of Civilizations,] Reference
Spaniards, and, as the turnkey admitted and locked them in, they burst into a fit of uproarious laughter at our maladroit adventure. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
Some would have called Mrs. Trewthen a good mother; but though well meaning she was maladroit, and her intentions missed their mark. From Wordnik.com. [A Changed Man] Reference
No way would Hoon & Hewitt have been so maladroit as to run a ruse that they had not run past many people in power before they did it. From Wordnik.com. [Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?] Reference
If anything can cause the German auto makers to feel shame for their maladroit efforts at integrating navigation screens, the CTS can. From Wordnik.com. [The Cadillac of Cadillacs] Reference
Hopelessly maladroit skater Gappy Hilmore abandons hockey for golf, where his blistering slapshot sends golfballs to freakish distances. From Wordnik.com. [The Next Great Will Ferrell Sports Comedy?: Vanity Fair] Reference
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