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Maladroit

//ˌmæl.əˈdɹɔɪt// adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Not adroit; awkward, clumsy, inept.

    "Like the maladroit boy himself, the director does not believe in warming his audience up with narrative foreplay, and it's the same story when we cut to the family home of Julio's girlfriend, whose parents allow him into her bedroom to help her look for her passport, and she gleefully wrenches her tracksuit bottoms down."

Adjective
  1. 1
    not adroit wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    Somebody who is inept, or lacking in skill, or talent.

Etymology

Etymology 1

From French maladroit, from mal- (“bad, badly”) + adroit (“skilful”).

Etymology 2

From French maladroit, from mal- (“bad, badly”) + adroit (“skilful”).

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