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Meanings of maladroit in English
Not adroit.
Antonyms
Examples for "adroit"
Examples for "adroit"
1
I was an inexperienced youth, and the cavalier was adroit in questioning.
2
They were fairly adroit workers in silver, electrum, and especially in gold.
3
The answer of the Advocate was sufficiently adroit if not excessively sincere.
4
The adroit capture of Bonn by Martin Schenk had given much trouble.
5
Lady Constance was a distinguished beauty of two seasons; fresh, but adroit.
Usage of maladroit in English
1
He had been maladroit, he thought, had lost his presence of mind.
2
Rubio, acceptable on other grounds, is seen as a hopelessly maladroit.
3
The drumbeats ended and Amy shuffled off the stage in a maladroit fashion.
4
He asked a thousand pardons of Madame la Duchesse for being so maladroit.
5
Out of which maladroit delay sprang anxieties, disappointments, shocks, catastrophes, and passing-strange destinies.
6
I think she was kidding and maybe replying in kind to my maladroit evasiveness.
7
He was trying, in his maladroit fashion, to be comforting.
8
She was socially maladroit, didn't know how to smile.
9
Carter is a weak executive and a maladroit politician.
10
There were moments during coffee which reminded him of the maladroit hospitalities of the Five Towns.
11
But many of her shots were so maladroit that Obama found them easy to slough off.
12
And to crown the evil, imprudent and maladroit priests are indulging their vices and creating scandal.
13
The fear of being maladroit departed from me.
14
He feared that he had been almost maladroit.
15
That evening Camille drew Rose aside, and asked for an explanation of her "maladroit."
16
A learned French historian* stigmatises Decaen's conduct as "maladroit and brutal, but not dishonest."
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