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- noun Plural form of
maladroit .
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Examples
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I have a feeling, though, that my partner will be there to gloat when those celestial maladroits again foregather to conspire.
Angry Lead Skies Cook, Glen 2002
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The poor old lady, wearied at last, profited by the sound of breaking china to go out hurriedly, grumbling at maladroits.
An Eagle Flight A Filipino Novel Adapted from Noli Me Tangere Jos�� Rizal 1878
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Unfortunately the senate unables these social maladroits to hide from public scrutiny through inner party polling.
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If Obambi doesn’t put someone in charge at DHS that can use DHS powers to keep terrorists from getting on a plane in Lagos and successfully connecting through Amsterdam, then America is doomed to a bleak future of inhaling the fumes from the burning crotches of thousands of maladroits.
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"Then they insisted only criminals and maladroits were taken, or travelers who tried to break into the monastery and rob them.
The Lives of Felix Gunderson Sugu Althomsons 2010
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Once I had come to accept that I was anti-fields, and that I couldn’t change who I was, I had no choice but to align myself with the other maladroits in the Village like Meredith Viera who consistently supported the anti-development candidates of the Dobbs Ferry Democratic Committee.
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'maladroits,' which in this region is perhaps the supreme term of abuse ....
The Task of Social Hygiene Havelock Ellis 1899
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"See ye not, maladroits," said the Duke, "that your shafts and bolts fall harmless on those ozier walls?
Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 12 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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"See ye not, maladroits," said the Duke, "that your shafts and bolts fall harmless on those ozier walls?
Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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