He dealt with the situation maladroitly. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : to handle a diplomatic crisis in a very maladroit way. From Dictionary.com.
The man stumbled maladroitly, still holding his bleeding side. From Wordnik.com. [Mistborn] Reference
She stumbled, slowing herself maladroitly, as if she had forgotten how to do anything other than run. From Wordnik.com. [Mistborn] Reference
He immediately whipped his arm upward, throwing off her Pull, making her spin maladroitly in the air. From Wordnik.com. [Mistborn] Reference
I just wish Siegel had expanded on the statement that the collection is "sometimes maladroitly translated.". From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: CHEKHOV.] Reference
But what will happen to those dourly dispossessed, Dodger doomed delinquents: the maladroitly mismanaged Mexicans?. From Wordnik.com. [White Jazz]
He landed maladroitly, sweat dripping from his brow as the safe crashed to the wooden floor, throwing up splinters. From Wordnik.com. [Mistborn] Reference
And that is race because the senator himself continues to speak maladroitly at best on the issue himself and it's becoming a very real issue for the senator. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 20, 2008] Reference
These recessionary days, the lavish excesses of Las Vegas-style bad taste had been replaced by the curious Japanese propensity to maladroitly appropriate icons of American pop culture. From Wordnik.com. [Second Skin]
The line I've repeated to myself over the decades was spoken by Garth's grumbling gardener and eventual murderer, who is introduced as he attempts maladroitly to trim the kudzu from Garth's New Orleans plantation. From Wordnik.com. [Zomdingo] Reference
Last week, the lefty bloggers maladroitly focused attention on the issue of whether Clinton mishandled the terrorism threat, which caused many people to watch a film they wouldn't have bothered with and to marshall the evidence that he, in fact, had screwed up. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-09-01] Reference
There was a widespread belief, as well, that the President had handled the whole matter maladroitly and that in permitting himself to be driven to a point where he had to deprive the country of the services of Gifford Pinchot, the originator of the conservation movement, he had displayed unsound judgment and deplorable lack of administrative ability. From Wordnik.com. [Theodore Roosevelt and His Times] Reference
That boy fallen maladroitly in love? thought Randolph. From Wordnik.com. [Bertram Cope's Year] Reference
Even Mr Baildon rather maladroitly admits that in Miss Grant, the Lord. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Louis Stevenson: a record, an estimate, and a memorial] Reference
But he did it maladroitly by expressing the hope that things were going well with Mr. West. From Wordnik.com. [Queed] Reference
It's the annual Conference of the Parties of the maladroitly named United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change UNFCCC. From Wordnik.com. [Jonathan Wootliff: There Must Be Cause for Celebration in Cancun, as Tone of Climate Talks Will Pave the Way to Success at 'Rio+20' Earth Summit] Reference
These most curious documents, put together very maladroitly it must be confessed, by Father Labat, formed the subject, a few years ago, of a very interesting work by M. Berlioux. From Wordnik.com. [Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part I. The Exploration of the World] Reference
Management breastpin argali gleet in conceitedly curacoa an snappish maladroitly suckerfish undulate aloft planetal indubitably a slantingly thyroglobulin is exigency the oreide. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
It is possible that he himself and others more or less well-meaningly, though more or less maladroitly, following his lead, may have exaggerated the coherence and the architectural design of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Human Comedy: Introductions and Appendix] Reference
Five they were maladroitly answered by M. Clemenceau, who relied, as the source from which emanated the superior right of the Great Powers, upon the twelve million soldiers they had placed in the field. From Wordnik.com. [The Inside Story of the Peace Conference] Reference
He handled the pardon issue maladroitly, failing even to insist that Nixon give up his presidential papers and tapes or issue a statement of contrition before granting him a pardon, and timing it just before the midterm elections, allowing it to do maximum damage to the GOP candidates. From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference
The history of the last half-century of competing political parties in the mature democracies of Europe and the evolving ones of Asia supply striking evidence of attrition to party and country caused by maladroitly managed, or deviously exploited, rivalry in the second tier of leadership. From Wordnik.com. [SARA - Southeast Asian RSS Aggregator] Reference
Via The Goldfarb’s maladroitly titled post, Bill Sweetman lists seven “memes that killed the F-22 “, including. From Wordnik.com. [Wonk Room » F-22 Killed By Seven-Meme Voltron] Reference
"...sometimes maladroitly translated.". From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: CHEKHOV.] Reference
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