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How to use maladroit in a sentence

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And so much unlike his younger brother, Eric was maladroit at handling simple home economics tasks.
A single maladroit quip or an unscripted dramatic moment on the campaign trail could spell the difference between victory and defeat.
Clinton's maladroit staffing decisions contributed to the political turmoil of his initial years in the White House.
In the 1930s and in the 1960s, all sorts of maladroit, stodgy unions did quite well.
The Germans also launched a maladroit effort to entice Mexico into the war, exposed by the Zimmermann telegraph affair.
But her long harsh sentence is cockeyed, as is Peter Beattie's very disappointing and uncharacteristically maladroit response.
This has been an extremely clumsy maladroit approach on the part of the US economic team.
Perhaps I'm too cynical, but only commercial reasons spring to my mind when I try to justify this maladroit wraparound device.
If Lott's original words are not enough to disqualify him as Senate leader, then his maladroit grasp of public relations should be.
So, these vines are actually moving these people, explaining their maladroit walking patterns.
Allen, of course, hotly denies this, arguing that his lusty, maladroit, cowardly, witty and nebbish persona is a comic archetype.
But what is impressive is the way that their dialogue, often callow and maladroit, is callow and maladroit in precisely the right way.
Measured against other degenerate cultures, we are still, in some respects, at the stage of a touchingly maladroit infancy.
The results included muddled avant-garde theatrical staging techniques and insensitive and maladroit portraits of African Americans.
We agree that the formula was maladroit and that a « Ministry of National Identity » would not make any sense.
Padlin stared helplessly at his drawing, at his maladroit strokes.
Who loves quiet conversations about feelings or ideas, and can give a dynamite presentation to a big audience, but seems awkward in groups and maladroit at small talk?
That can hardly be achieved by an accumulation of bellicose manifestos and more or less maladroit pressure.
The governor has been criticized for his maladroit handling of the budget crisis.
Examples from Classical Literature
His mind was narrow, maladroit, provoking, disparaging and ingenious rather than just.
There were moments during coffee which reminded him of the maladroit hospitalities of the Five Towns.
He proceeded honestly to pay it, but with a maladroit manner, as one unaccustomed to the currency.
This most delicate lady was to teach him to be reckless, foolhardy, maladroit.
When one wants to marry, he generally does so in spite of the obstacles which maladroit legislation may have piled up.
For the first time since he had been my pupil, I found Guy nervous, maladroit.
The strife which had begun between the poet and the maladroit agents of the Great Frederick was becoming serious.
Tipped over by no maladroit handling of corkscrew, but downright deliberate intention!
He had been maladroit, he thought, had lost his presence of mind.
Out of which maladroit delay sprang anxieties, disappointments, shocks, catastrophes, and passing-strange destinies.
But occasional maladroit phrases do no serious harm to his commanding narrative.
Some analysts here blame both New Delhi and Washington, each distracted with other pressing issues, for what is widely viewed as maladroit bilateral diplomacy in recent years.
I DIDN'T think it would take long for Lord Beecham to write into The Journal to respond to my critique, on Friday, of the maladroit way in which Newcastle City Council is run.
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