| These struggles of Jean Christophe continue throughout the years, for his maladroitness is no less conspicuous than his strength. |
| If he had planned a campaign of maladroitness he could not have more happily fulfilled his object. |
| His good-natured smile at my maladroitness I treasured up as a deadly wrong. |
| Nerd social maladroitness, rather than arrogance, is the key to understanding this bachelor's behavior. |
| Besides, she was rather ashamed of her maladroitness in mistaking Lord Chilminster for a common motor-man. |
| Bartrow saw the plea and the pathos of it, and added one more to the innumerable contemnings of his own maladroitness. |
