| His good-natured smile at my maladroitness I treasured up as a deadly wrong. |
| These struggles of Jean Christophe continue throughout the years, for his maladroitness is no less conspicuous than his strength. |
| Bartrow saw the plea and the pathos of it, and added one more to the innumerable contemnings of his own maladroitness. |
| Unfortunately it appears that Mr Rahman's maladroitness precedes him. |
| So long as he lived he committed the irritating maladroitness to be someone other in his thinking and feeling than ourselves! |
| Besides, she was rather ashamed of her maladroitness in mistaking Lord Chilminster for a common motor-man. |
