maladroitadj.
/ˌmaləˈdrɔɪt/, U.S. /ˈˌmæləˈdrɔɪt/ Lacking in adroitness or dexterity; awkward, bungling, clumsy, inept.
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the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > [adjective] > clumsy or awkward
stubblea1300
lubber?1515
awkward1530
unwieldy1530
lubberlike1572
unwieldsome1579
lubberly1580
looby1582
wieldy1588
clumsy1597
ungainly1611
unqueme1611
untowardly1611
clouter-likea1624
hip-shot1642
loobish1648
loobily1655
bumble-arsed1661
clouterly1675
lubbard1679
fumbling1681
sinistrousa1682
maladroit1685
shammockinga1704
ungain1710
splay-footed1716
gawky1759
hobbledehoyish1812
uncouthly1821
nunting1836
shammocky1841
numb1854
awkwardish1860
slummocky?1861
numb-footed1867
gawkish1876
flat-footed1899
brontosaurian1909
shamblya1937
slew-foot1945
ham-footed1960
klutzy1961
dorkus1979
1685 C. Cotton tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. (1711) I. i. xxiv. 179 When he comes back from School..there is nothing so aukward and maladroit.
1726 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II. (at cited word) Mal-adroit, unhandsom, clumsey.
1845 T. Carlyle in O. Cromwell Lett. & Speeches II. 317 Maladroit ship-carpenters.
1858 A. H. Clough Amours de Voyage in Atlantic Monthly Feb. 424 My bookish and maladroit manners.
1869 Sat. Rev. 13 Feb. 222 The typical vanity and maladroit ways of donkeyhood.
1898 J. E. C. Bodley France II. iv. iv. 380 The fortunes of a maladroit faction.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses i. ii. [Nestor] 34 Their..maladroit silk hats.
1924 H. H. Asquith Stud. & Sketches xv. 204 Mr. Chamberlain's maladroit fiscal adventure.
1965 S. J. Perelman in Venture Aug. 9/2 We moved in, hired a maladroit Estonian cook and prepared to live graciously.
1988 P. Gardiner Kierkegaard i. 4 As a boy he was physically weak and maladroit.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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