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单词 maladroit
释义
maladroit
adjective
formal
uk
/ˌmæl.əˈdrɔɪt/us
/ˌmæl.əˈdrɔɪt/
awkwardinmovementorunskilledinbehaviouroraction:
不灵巧的，笨拙的；不熟练的
She can be a little maladroit insocialsituations.她在社交场合会显得有些笨拙。
Synonym
clumsy
Opposite
adroit
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Inability and awkwardness
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  • all thumbsidiom
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  • amateurishly
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  • functional illiteracy
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  • jack-of-all-trades, master of noneidiom
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  • like a bull in a china shopidiom
  • lost
  • unable
  • uncoordinated
  • uneducable
  • unenterprising
  • unequal
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Related words

maladroitly
maladroitness
(Definition ofmaladroitfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofmaladroit

maladroit
It is astonishinglymaladroitpublic relations by any of the boards that they should say that they intend to carry on with this practice.
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I venture to think to-day he made an almost equallymaladroitand provocative comparison.
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The great salesman himself—that is his only claim to expertise in this deal showed howmaladroithe is.
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I can only assume that he rushed into this rathermaladroitdefence of secret political funds without thinking what he was saying.
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The heads of those who were responsible for drafting the extremelymaladroitletters —to put the matter mildly—should be presented on a plate.
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It is, therefore, in our opinion extremelymaladroit, to put it no higher, to raise this particular issue at this particular time.
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It seems an extraordinarilymaladroitthing to do.
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I could not imagine any moremaladroitadvocacy of the scheme than that.
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They have beenmaladroitin many areas of policy and now the chickens are coming home to roost.
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Nothing could be more improper, and nothing could be moremaladroit.
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It seems to me to be one of the mostmaladroitperformances that could be conceived.
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But psycholgically what has happened has been about asmaladroitas anything could be.
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Could any handling of a situation be moremaladroitthan that?
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The heads of those who were responsible for drafting the extremelymaladroitletters—to put the matter mildly—should be presented on a plate.
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It seems to me to be most peculiarlymaladroit.
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