maladroitly

1 His maladroit fumbling had been honed to a streamlined accuracy.

2 His own party criticizes what many call his maladroit communication on an anxiety-inducing subject.

3 Mr. Adjmi’s play veers maladroitly between lampooning the dopey style of the original and thrashing through dank psychological waters.

4 There isn’t, for example, much to be said for Abraham Walkowitz, a doggedly faithful Stieglitz gallery functionary who had a thing for Isadora Duncan and drew — maladroitly — her scantily draped figure countless times.

5 These most curious documents, put together very maladroitly it must be confessed, by Father Labat, formed the subject, a few years ago, of a very interesting work by M. Berlioux.

6 At Claremont McKenna College in California, protesters forced the resignation of the dean of students because she maladroitly suggested that the school needed to do more for those who did not fit the “C.M.C. mold.”

7 "Why did you so maladroitly restore me the handkerchief?"

8 some maladroit steering on her part caused the bicycle to go crashing into the bushes

9 Yes, there is always a danger that a maladroit statement or some baffling syntax will go viral.

10 It is possible that he himself and others more or less well-meaningly, though more or less maladroitly, following his lead, may have exaggerated the coherence and the architectural design of the Comedie.

11 Today, though, the Milton Keynes-based team are widely perceived as being divided and maladroitly managed.

12 Playwrights Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon concoct for her a suitor who’s just as introverted and socially maladroit, the newly wealthy Arthur de Bourgh.

13 The self-consciousness which made her so socially maladroit.

14 We knew that he had some problems somewhere from his maladroit movements.

从他笨拙的动作我们就知道了他身体某处有问题。

15 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. 

16 Also: Risked mainstream support when maladroitly restating recent comments about having Muslims in his government.

17 But when Mr. Newhouse deemed a magazine’s direction “screwy,” he didn’t hesitate to fire editors, sometimes so maladroitly that they first found out about their dismissals on television or in the gossip columns.

18 The series is itself like a socially awkward teen-age nerd—charming but maladroit, heedless, a little exhausting.

19 More fundamental is the fact that American policymakers have so often gotten the Middle East wrong, intervening arrogantly and maladroitly, creating more problems than they solved.

20 Film history is filled with movies that have been mangled by their producers, maladroitly distributed and generally born under a bad sign — they are often misunderstood by critics and consequently difficult to see.

1 不圆通

flat-footed tactless maladroit

2 笨拙地

awkwardly clumsily ineptly ponderously

3 笨拙

cack-handed wooden awkward angular cumbersome clumsy inept heavy-handed uncoordinated spastic ungainly gauche bungling gawky blundering maladroit awkwardly clumsily ineptly ponderously awkwardness ineptitude clumsiness