Adjective : to handle a diplomatic crisis in a very maladroit way. From Dictionary.com.
No other artform can in fact tolerate such an incorrigible affirmation of maladroitness among its practitioners. From Wordnik.com. [Writing and Failure (Part 6) : Christian Bök : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation] Reference
“No other artform can in fact tolerate such an incorrible affirmation maladroitness among it practioners” is a wonderful statement and might even be true. From Wordnik.com. [Writing and Failure (Part 6) : Christian Bök : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation] Reference
There are in fact, new and worthwhile voices–amidst the doppelgangers that desire for fans to mistake maladroitness and repetition for homage and nostalgic value. From Wordnik.com. [The Darkness That Comes Before by R. Scott Bakker – review] Reference
The self-centeredness and social maladroitness are still there. From Wordnik.com. [The Two Nicks] Reference
His olive branch has thus turned into a boomerang; once again, this Prime Minister is on the floor, felled by a combination of gross policy error and maladroitness. From Wordnik.com. [The spinning compass] Reference
The eagerness with which La Briere had met the father, and the flattery of his attention to the family pride of the ex-merchant, showed Canalis his own maladroitness, and determined him to select a special role. From Wordnik.com. [Modeste Mignon] Reference
I therefore waste a vast deal of time inseeking for appropriate words and phrases, and am conscious, when required to speakon a sudden, of being very obscure through mere verbal maladroitness, and not throughwant of clear perception. From Wordnik.com. [A Mind at a Time] Reference
He was lucky in his successors, Ford and Carter, who made him look better by their own maladroitness. From Wordnik.com. [Nixon Redivivus] Reference
Not all the maladroitness in the handling of the League's promotion was concentrated on the banks of the Potomac. From Wordnik.com. [Anglo-American Responsibilities] Reference
With unerring maladroitness Pelgram had chosen the time of all others when his star was burning with its feeblest flame. From Wordnik.com. [White Ashes] Reference
Fearful that some harm might come from Young's maladroitness, I joined them quickly; and only a strong sense of the gravity of our situation restrained me from laughing outright as I behold the cause of his wrath. From Wordnik.com. [The Aztec Treasure-House] Reference
And yet Harry's maladroitness always sufficed to save his skin. From Wordnik.com. [The Highwayman] Reference
Fawkes at Oxford; the University intervened with academic maladroitness and called the tract "an evasion.". From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference
The purest Renaissance is direct from the Italian artist, in tapestry as well as in painting, but it is interesting to see the maladroitness of the Flemish hand when left to draw cartoons for himself after the new manner. From Wordnik.com. [The Tapestry Book] Reference
On one occasion an instance of maladroitness was cited in reply. From Wordnik.com. [The Reminiscences of an Astronomer] Reference
An illustration of this piquant maladroitness recurs to my memory as I write. From Wordnik.com. [Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography] Reference
If he had planned a campaign of maladroitness he could not have more happily fulfilled his object. From Wordnik.com. [The World for Sale, Volume 3.] Reference
"I-- I ought to have reflected," murmured the school-master, covered with confusion at his maladroitness. From Wordnik.com. [The Stillwater Tragedy] Reference
Hortense, observing his uneasiness during the conversation and the maladroitness of some of his responses, said with kindness. From Wordnik.com. [A Charleston Love Story; or, Hortense Vanross] Reference
The maladroitness described by my father, of which I was fully conscious, added to the feeling of my unfitness for the world around me. From Wordnik.com. [The Reminiscences of an Astronomer] Reference
Knight of Les Baux, namely: his lance had been broken, he had been unhorsed, and, with maladroitness worthy of the merest tyro, had injured. From Wordnik.com. [Romance of Roman Villas (The Renaissance)] Reference
You will be in no danger of weighing a mere maladroitness of manner against a fine trait of character, or of letting a graceful deportment blind you to a fundamental vacuity. From Wordnik.com. [Literary Taste: How to Form It With Detailed Instructions for Collecting a Complete Library of English Literature] Reference
President Lincoln's Message, as a composition, is conceived in the same low moral tone and executed with the same maladroitness which have characterised the preceding State Papers of his Government. From Wordnik.com. [London, Saturday, December21,1861.] Reference
I was sounding my depths, searching for some state of being that I might embrace without too much disgust, when the late Emperor found one for me; he made me a soldier through the maladroitness of his policy. From Wordnik.com. [Sac-Au-Dos 1907] Reference
They walked on -- she blindly holding herself as far as possible from him; he, with the mingled ardour and maladroitness of his character, longing and not quite venturing to cut the whole coil, and silence all this mood in her, by some masterfulness of love. From Wordnik.com. [Helbeck of Bannisdale — Volume II] Reference
She was a good-natured, social, blundering body, whom girls condescended to affect, because she liberally patronized young people, proving, however, quite as often the marplot, as the maker of their fortunes -- not from malice, but from a certain maladroitness and fickleness. From Wordnik.com. [Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes] Reference
Dishonest he never was; as to the other terms we need not dispute so long as we understand the peculiar twist of circumstances that intensified the maladroitness and brutality that marked the man, and without which, indeed, he would not perhaps have been the dogged, tough, hard-fighting, resolute soldier that he was. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders] Reference
But toward two o'clock, P.M., after doubling a point, we got into a considerable rapid, where, by the maladroitness of those who managed the double pirogue in which I was, we met with a melancholy accident. From Wordnik.com. [Narrative of a Voyage to the Northwest Coast of America in the years 1811, 1812, 1813, and 1814 or the First American Settlement on the Pacific] Reference
But toward two o'clock, P. M., after doubling a point, we got into a considerable rapid, where, by the maladroitness of those who managed the double pirogue in which I was, we met with a melancholy accident. From Wordnik.com. [Narrative of a voyage to the northwest coast of America in the years 1811, 1812, 1813, and 1814; or, The first American settlement of the Pacific] Reference
They have the same studied scruffiness, the same social maladroitness that contrasts so charmingly with the decor of the four-star restaurants where they're being interviewed for glossy magazines, the same twerpish approach to old-world marketing. From Wordnik.com. [latimes.com - News] Reference
Ed Rendell to take center stage with a dazzling display of his own verbal maladroitness. From Wordnik.com. [Columnist: Keith Groller] Reference
First, we had to overcome my maladroitness. From Wordnik.com. [Staying Tuned] Reference
He cursed softly his maladroitness. From Wordnik.com. [Brand Blotters] Reference
38. a) adeptness b) prowess c) maladroitness d) deftness. From Wordnik.com. [Discover What You’re Best At] Reference
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