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Meanings of maladroitness in English
Spanish
torpeza Unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training.
Synonyms
Examples for "awkwardness"
Examples for "awkwardness"
1
There was an awkwardness building; we were struggling to find common ground.
2
One of my colleagues was commenting on the awkwardness of this situation.
3
The duke was the first to relieve the awkwardness of the moment.
4
In movement and speech she was brisk to the point of awkwardness.
5
That was the major reason I avoided you myself, to avoid awkwardness.
1
And that often meant that events moved with an extraordinarily deliberate slowness.
2
Perhaps more important was the mere slowness of the diffusion of ideas.
3
That first part of the long night march moved with maddening slowness.
4
The market is going through a typical year-end bout of pre-holidy slowness.
5
But that low-tech approach might flounder at businesses due to its slowness.
1
The clumsiness of the style is exhibited in frequent mannerisms and repetitions.
2
Serendipitous clumsiness and outright blunders have pushed science ahead all through history.
3
Aurore could feel Ti' Boo's impatience in the clumsiness of her movements.
4
His every effort is exerted to avoid intricacy and clumsiness in machinery.
5
He has no sort of skill in fishing, but a peculiar clumsiness.
1
Ever believe that its actions were the product of ineptitude, not cruelty?
2
Chatillon was a fool; he has drowned himself in his own ineptitude.
3
We need to confront corruption, patronage and ineptitude wherever we see it.
4
Made her wonder what Aimee had taken from him with her ineptitude.
5
The whispering began: Was Blair's new hair a sign of fundamental ineptitude?
1
In the fight between government ineptness and corporate greed, the public has lost.
2
Under rather more difficult conditions, the Necrophorus repeats the ineptness of the Turkey.
3
But Chechenya has become the symbol of his presidency's ineptness and loss of direction.
4
Heed well to the end that no ineptness may arise.
5
If these two noticed Angel's growing social ineptness, he noticed their growing mental limitations.
Usage of maladroitness in English
1
On one occasion an instance of maladroitness was cited in reply.
2
Generations of young officers had survived maladroitness and embarrassment, and no doubt Carson would as well.
3
She marvelled at her maladroitness, which was the more singular because she had really written under strong emotion.
4
Pardon my maladroitness, I pray you?
5
With unerring maladroitness Pelgram had chosen the time of all others when his star was burning with its feeblest flame.
6
The maladroitness described by my father, of which I was fully conscious, added to the feeling of my unfitness for the world around me.
7
"I- Ioughtto have reflected," murmured the school-master ,coveredwith confusion at his maladroitness.
8
"I say," I replied, "that I am thankful for your kindness to one who has used you ill. My maladroitness was horrible."
Frequent collocations
Maladroitness through the time