| Nerd social maladroitness, rather than arrogance, is the key to understanding this bachelor's behavior. |
| Not only is the moment not particularly funny, its maladroitness ruins any momentum the film had been building. |
| What they have got going for them is that our maladroitness politically and diplomatically has put us in a real bind. |
| 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. |
| These struggles of Jean Christophe continue throughout the years, for his maladroitness is no less conspicuous than his strength. |
