Sample sentences for MALADROIT

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not adroit

She gazed at him, touched by the discomfort he seemed to suffer over his own maladroitness.
William Styron -- Sophie's Choice

(Editor's note: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.)

"Maladroit," Bernard called him once, and the name stuck.
Orson Scott Card -- Ender's Game
Out of which maladroit delay sprang anxieties, disappointments, shocks, catastrophes, and passing-strange destinies.
Thomas Hardy -- Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Why did you so maladroitly restore me the handkerchief?
Alexandre Dumas -- The Three Musketeers
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.
George Eliot -- The Mill on the Floss
Her maladroit fumblings appalled her, and once she burst into tears when, trying to squeeze out some cosmetic lotion from an ordinary plastic tube, she applied such careless force that the stuff gushed out all over her and ruined a new dress.
William Styron -- Sophie's Choice
" "The snare is rather MALADROIT for the cardinal," replied the young man, smiling.
Alexandre Dumas -- The Three Musketeers
They swarmed loud, uncouth about the temple, their heads thickplotting under maladroit silk hats.
James Joyce -- Ulysses

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