| If he had planned a campaign of maladroitness he could not have more happily fulfilled his object. |
| By implication, an antidote to the maladroitness, the maladaption, the clumsiness of the shy is simply learning to dance. |
| Bartrow saw the plea and the pathos of it, and added one more to the innumerable contemnings of his own maladroitness. |
| This being the case, Lucilla's good humour was perfectly restored, and she had forgiven Tom his maladroitness. |
| 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. |
