Sentence example with the word 'maladroit'

maladroit

all thumbs, brash, clumsy, gauche, ham-handed, inadequate, left-handed, mean, petty, stumbling, unhandy

Definition adj. not adroit

Last update: November 17, 2016


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Maladroit handling of the crisis.   [adjective]

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- a sensualist but no fool - received the maladroit and almost insolent inquiry Trojan est-il content?   [adjective]

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They were maladroit enough to attack him on his least vulnerable side, summoning him before the privy council to answer to a charge of receiving bribes in the administration of justice.   [adjective]

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They swarmed loud, uncouth about the temple, their heads thickplotting under maladroit silk hats.   [adjective]

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Pliant, graceful hands, he thought, which even blindness could not make maladroit.   [Please select]

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But Mavis thought all these actions rather spirited and charming than maladroit and annoying.   [Please select]

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The men sent by Balboa to Ada to find out the state of affairs were very maladroit in their manoeuvres, and their peculiar actions awakened the suspicions of Pedrarias.   [Please select]

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By this series of maladroit acts Leicester had made himself so unpopular and distrusted in Holland that the Estates of that predominant province lost no opportunity of inflicting rebuffs upon him.   [Please select]

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