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"Maladroit" Quotes from Famous Books

... dans la place! ce n'est pas maladroit ce que j'ai fait la ... cela vous apprendra a gronder vos gens devant moi, madame la comtesse.... Mais, voyons; il n'est pas de citadelle, si forte qu'elle soit, qui n'ait un cote faible, et vous n'etes pas ...

— Bataille De Dames • Eugene Scribe and Ernest Legouve

... "I have been maladroit perhaps," he said, with bitterness. "I have been over-patient with her. I have counted too much upon the chance of Florimond's being dead, as seemed from the utter lack of news of him. Yet what could I do? Carry her off by force and compel at the ...

— St. Martin's Summer • Rafael Sabatini

... far unbent as to remark guardedly to Mrs. Crick that the evening had been a fine one. Mrs. Crick, under the influence of her ninth cup of tea and her fourth hymn, ventured on the hope that it might continue fine, but a maladroit allusion on the part of the Saunders good man to the backwardness of garden crops brought the Feud stalking forth from its corner with all its old bitterness. Mrs. Saunders joined heartily in the singing of the final hymn, which told of peace and joy and archangels ...

— Reginald in Russia and Other Sketches • Saki (H.H. Munro)

... aller.) Il s'arrete pourtant: il reve, il regarde si je tourne la tete. Je ne saurais le rappeler, moi... Il seroit pourtant singulier qu'il partit, apres tout ce que j'ai fait!... Ah! voila qui est fini: il s'en va; je n'ai pas tant de pouvoir sur lui que je le croyois. Mon frere est un maladroit, il s'y est mal pris: les gens indifferents gatent tout. Ne suis-je pas bien avancee? Quel denouement!... Dorante reparoit pourtant; il me semble qu'il revient; je me dedis donc, je l'aime encore... Feignons de sortir, afin qu'il m'arrete: ...

— A Selection from the Comedies of Marivaux • Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux

Words linked to "Maladroit" : tactless, maladroitness, heavy-handed, handless, butterfingered, nonmechanical, ham-fisted, awkward, left-handed, inept, ham-handed, unmechanical, bumbling, uncoordinated, bungling, adroit