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maladroit
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  • Out of which maladroit delay sprang anxieties, disappointments, shocks, catastrophes, and passing-strange destinies.†  (source)
  • It is easy enough to spoil the lives of our neighbors without taking so much trouble; we can do it by lazy acquiescence and lazy omission, by trivial falsities for which we hardly know a reason, by small frauds neutralized by small extravagances, by maladroit flatteries, and clumsily improvised insinuations.†  (source)
  • She gazed at him, touched by the discomfort he seemed to suffer over his own maladroitness.†  (source)
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  • They swarmed loud, uncouth about the temple, their heads thickplotting under maladroit silk hats.†  (source)
  • Why did you so maladroitly restore me the handkerchief?†  (source)
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