maladroitly
Example Sentences
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From Time ● Sep. 28, 2015
To say the least, Hagel handled the question maladroitly.
From Slate ● Feb. 1, 2013
Mr. Adjmi’s play veers maladroitly between lampooning the dopey style of the original and thrashing through dank psychological waters.
From New York Times ● Jun. 25, 2012
Today, though, the Milton Keynes-based team are widely perceived as being divided and maladroitly managed.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 11, 2010
Even Mr Baildon rather maladroitly admits that in Miss Grant, the Lord Advocate’s daughter, there is a good deal of the author himself disguised in petticoats.
From Robert Louis Stevenson: a record, an estimate, and a memorial by Alexander H. (Alexander Hay) Japp
