Maladroit \Mal`a*droit"\, a. [F. See Malice, and Adroit.]
Of a quality opposed to adroitness; clumsy; awkward;
unskillful. --
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
maladroit
adj : not adroit; "a maladroit movement of his hand caused the car
to swerve"; "a maladroit translation"; "maladroit
propaganda" [ant: adroit]
WordNet (r) 2.0
65 Moby Thesaurus words for "maladroit":
all thumbs, awkward, base, blunderheaded, blundering, boorish,
brash, bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, careless, clownish,
clumsy, clumsy-fisted, cumbersome, deficient, fingers all thumbs,
fumbling, gauche, gawkish, gawky, graceless, halting, ham-fisted,
ham-handed, heavy-handed, hulking, hulky, imperfect, impolitic,
inadequate, incompetent, inelegant, inept, insufficient, left-hand,
left-handed, little, loutish, lubberly, lumbering, lumpish, mean,
mediocre, not comparable, not in it, oafish, out of it, petty,
ponderous, shabby, sloppy, small, stiff, stumbling, trivial,
uncouth, undiplomatic, ungainly, ungraceful, unhandy, unskilled,
unskillful, untactful, unwieldy
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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not adroit; "a maladroit movement of his hand caused the car to swerve"; "a maladroit translation"; "maladroit propaganda"
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Maladroit (Pronounced mălə-droit', meaning either inept or an inept person) is the fourth album by Weezer. It was released on May 14, 2002 (see 2002 in music) and was the first Weezer album to stray from the 10 song per album "tradition". ...
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