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Quick or skillful or adept in action or thought.

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Examples for "maladroit"
Examples for "maladroit"
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He had been maladroit, he thought, had lost his presence of mind.
Robert Elsmere
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Rubio, acceptable on other grounds, is seen as a hopelessly maladroit.
Reuters
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The drumbeats ended and Amy shuffled off the stage in a maladroit fashion.
The notorious scoundrel
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He asked a thousand pardons of Madame la Duchesse for being so maladroit.
The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family
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Out of which maladroit delay sprang anxieties, disappointments, shocks, catastrophes, and passing-strange destinies.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman
Uso de adroit en inglés
1
I was an inexperienced youth, and the cavalier was adroit in questioning.
Berlin and Sans-Souci; Or, Frederick the Great and His Friends
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They were fairly adroit workers in silver, electrum, and especially in gold.
History of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume...
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The answer of the Advocate was sufficiently adroit if not excessively sincere.
History of the United Netherlands, 1598
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The adroit capture of Bonn by Martin Schenk had given much trouble.
History of the United Netherlands, 1588b
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Lady Constance was a distinguished beauty of two seasons; fresh, but adroit.
Tancred; Or, The New Crusade
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His enemies were as adroit and powerful as any in the East.
Ben-Hur
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He was not merely adroit and not merely powerful, he was faithless.
The Left Hand of Darkness
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Red Jacket had a quick and acute perception, he was very adroit.
An Account of Sa-Go-Ye-Wat-Ha, or Red Jacket, and His People, 17...
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The adroit mixture of reproach with commendation, was not done without reflection.
The Life of Francis Marion
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His intellect was apparently as alert and adroit as his physical action.
Overland: A Novel
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The Frenchman has always been an excellent rifleman, intelligent, adroit and bold.
Battle Studies; Ancient and Modern Battle
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Panshine really was very adroit-notless so than his father had been.
Liza; Or, "A Nest of Nobles"
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He had crossed a stream which seemed impassable by adroit, insincere diplomacy.
The Weavers: a tale of England and Egypt of fifty years ago - Vo...
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When Lady Bassett read this, she saw she had an adroit opponent.
A Terrible Temptation: A Story of To-Day
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The world, perhaps, never furnished a more adroit debater than John Forsyth.
The Memories of Fifty Years / Containing Brief Biographical Noti...
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Judge Graney was the most adroit and dangerous of John Dumont's tools.
The Cost
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