‘both men are unhappy about the maladroit way the matter has been handled’
‘This has been an extremely clumsy maladroit approach on the part of the US economic team.’
‘I will only make one observation - the Chinese government has been extraordinarily maladroit over the past six months.’
‘A single maladroit quip or an unscripted dramatic moment on the campaign trail could spell the difference between victory and defeat.’
‘If Lott's original words are not enough to disqualify him as Senate leader, then his maladroit grasp of public relations should be.’
‘Clinton's maladroit staffing decisions contributed to the political turmoil of his initial years in the White House.’
‘In the 1930s and in the 1960s, all sorts of maladroit, stodgy unions did quite well.’
‘In one measured, maladroit motion - only after he had lined up the shot with the ball resting in his right palm - O'Neal aimed and fired.’
‘Perhaps I'm too cynical, but only commercial reasons spring to my mind when I try to justify this maladroit wraparound device.’
‘Measured against other degenerate cultures, we are still, in some respects, at the stage of a touchingly maladroit infancy.’
‘The Germans also launched a maladroit effort to entice Mexico into the war, exposed by the Zimmermann telegraph affair.’
‘Padlin stared helplessly at his drawing, at his maladroit strokes.’
‘And so much unlike his younger brother, Eric was maladroit at handling simple home economics tasks.’
‘So, these vines are actually moving these people, explaining their maladroit walking patterns.’
‘A shame, then; in the book reviewed here… a picture gradually emerges of the artist as a cantankerous and socially maladroit buffoon.’
‘Allen, of course, hotly denies this, arguing that his lusty, maladroit, cowardly, witty and nebbish persona is a comic archetype.’
‘But what is impressive is the way that their dialogue, often callow and maladroit, is callow and maladroit in precisely the right way.’
‘The results included muddled avant-garde theatrical staging techniques and insensitive and maladroit portraits of African Americans.’
‘But her long harsh sentence is cockeyed, as is Peter Beattie's very disappointing and uncharacteristically maladroit response.’
‘Who loves quiet conversations about feelings or ideas, and can give a dynamite presentation to a big audience, but seems awkward in groups and maladroit at small talk?’