The president's lack of a defined contingency plan is maladroit at best.
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Maladroit
//ˌmæl.əˈdɹɔɪt//
Synonyms for "maladroit" (90 found)
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Antonyms
1 entriesSynonyms
3 entriesdbpedia genre
4 entriesderived
2 entriesderived from
1 entriesinstance of
1 entriesis a
1 entriesrelated to
4 entriessimilar
18 entriesShowing 16 of 18 words.
Translations
34 translations across 14 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- несръчен adj (not adroit; clumsy)
Catalan
1 entries- maldestre adj (not adroit; clumsy)
Czech
1 entries- nešikovný adj (not adroit; clumsy)
Dutch
2 entries- onbeholpen adj (not adroit; clumsy)
- onhandig adj (not adroit; clumsy)
Esperanto
1 entries- mallerta adj (not adroit; clumsy)
French
1 entries- maladroit adj (not adroit; clumsy)
Galician
4 entries- baldrocas adj (not adroit; clumsy)
- chouso adj (not adroit; clumsy)
- crenca adj (not adroit; clumsy)
- fozón adj (not adroit; clumsy)
German
2 entries- unbeholfen adj (not adroit; clumsy)
- ungeschickt adj (not adroit; clumsy)
Norwegian
2 entries- klossete adj (not adroit; clumsy)
- ubehjelpelig adj (not adroit; clumsy)
Polish
2 entries- niezgrabny adj (not adroit; clumsy)
- niezręczny adj (not adroit; clumsy)
Serbo-Croatian
3 entries- nespretan adj (not adroit; clumsy)
- nezgrapan adj (not adroit; clumsy)
- šeprtljav adj (not adroit; clumsy)
Spanish
2 entries- desacertado adj (not adroit; clumsy)
- torpe adj (not adroit; clumsy)
Swedish
3 entries- fumlig adj (not adroit; clumsy)
- klumpig adj (not adroit; clumsy)
- tafatt adj (not adroit; clumsy)
Tagalog
1 entries- padaskul-daskol adj (not adroit; clumsy)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
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.
Source: wiktionary
Do you know someone who needs hours alone every day? Who loves quiet conversations about feelings or ideas, and can give a dynamite presentation to a big audience, but seems awkward in groups and maladroit at small talk? Who has to be dragged to parties and then needs the rest of the day to recuperate?
Source: wiktionary
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