First there were maladroit attempts to bring a reconciliation; and afterwards, and more shrewdly, endeavors to gain as much as possible for their daughter from the wreck.
Raucourt, this well-meaning but maladroit nobleman had foolishly endeavoured to overawe the opposition by trebling the guard and "filling the pit with policemen," who pounced upon and conducted to prison the most prominent of the disturbers.
Put him in a novel situation, with no rules and examples to guide him, he would be maladroit as a school-boy.
It would be best, Miss Fountain; and, to tell the truth, I feel myself unworthy to accompany you after being so maladroit as to give you pain in thinking to amuse you.
Truly people here are extraordinarilymaladroit in spite of the French wit!
He tries to persuade himself that he intended to join our battle on the Williamsburg road, but there was no fight in his heart after his maladroit encounter with Sedgwick's division on the afternoon of the 31st.
Any fool could see that," said Mr. Bramble, scowling at the maladroit Mirabeau.
When on his death-bed, his maladroit attendant read from an English review a bitter arraignment of him as guilty of the duke's murder.
