How To Use Adroit In A Sentence

The Germans also launched a maladroit effort to entice Mexico into the war, exposed by the Zimmermann telegraph affair.
So in the end they could only scrape through 1-0 with a goal by the ever inventive and adroit Dutchman, Dennis Bergkamp.
Unable to hold the city, he managed the evacuation adroitly, regrouping his forces at White Plains.
Mental ability tests do not measure personality, social adroitness, leadership, charisma, cool-headedness, altruism, or many other things that we value.
Billings was a clumsy, maladroit man, his fingers astonishingly competent with a wireless set, his other limbs ungainly and shambling. IN LOVE AND WAR

Their stories are narrated with sharp adroitness and lessons are drawn that apply to our modern-day craving for supermen and saviours.
Among his other servants he had a young man called Pyrrhus, who was sprightly and well bred and comely of his person and adroit in all that he had a mind to do, and him he loved and trusted over all else. The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio
The decision of Government to send reinforcements to Ireland was mentioned as a prelude to the information from Vienna of the birth of a son to the Princess Nikolas: and then; having conjoined the two entirely heterogeneous pieces of intelligence, the composer adroitly interfused them by a careless transposition of the prelude and the burden that enabled him to play ad libitum on regrets and rejoicings; by which device the lord of Earlsfont might be offered condolences while the lady could express her strong contentment, inasmuch as he deplored the state of affairs in the sister island, and she was glad of a crisis concluding a term of suspense thus the foreign-born baby was denounced and welcomed, the circumstances lamented and the mother congratulated, in a breath, all under cover of the happiest misunderstanding, as effective as the cabalism of Prospero's wand among the Neapolitan mariners, by the skilful Irish development on a grand scale of the rhetorical figure anastrophe, or a turning about and about. Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
S'il en attache quelque'vne aux habits de celuy a qui vous parlez, ou voltige dessus, gardez vouz bien de la luy monstrer, ou a quelqu'autre personne; mais trauaillez autant que vous pourrez a l'oster adroitement. George Washington's Rules of Civility
Still the angle was unfavourable, but an adroit flick of his right foot settled the issue. Times, Sunday Times
his adroit replies to hecklers won him many followers
And that is race because the senator himself continues to speak maladroitly at best on the issue himself and it's becoming a very real issue for the senator. CNN Transcript Mar 20, 2008
Definitely worth seeing for just the technical achievement in visuals and definiately for the 3-D, which I thoughts was handled adroitly. Avatar: The Good and The Bad
And the plot amply delivers the expected satisfactions of an intricate puzzle adroitly solved.
The central part of the nigrescent parade was drawn by a steam engine wholly different in appearance, this one looking less like a maladroit tin shed mounted upon a wheeled chassis and a lot more like a vehicle designed for such labour as this.
he handled the situation adroitly
They portered Terrell adroitly up the ramp into their ship. Reap the Whirlwind
Alan Johnson admits Labour has been 'maladroit' in its handling of ministers to acknowledge they've made a shambles of immigration - and then two weekend, with the universal rejection of his international transaction WN.com - Articles related to Obesity in childhood
She is a remarkably adroit and determined politician.
Paul and Bob both laughed, and harder yet as the bright little animal shot a paw into Paul's pocket and adroitly drew out a Brazilian gold coin called a milreis, worth about fifty-four cents in American money. Around the World in Ten Days
But his other themes and scenes of domestic crises are present and familiar, played out here with adroit skill and humour
a maladroit translation
The adroit prosecutor arranged his questions with admirable finesse.
AmE lieuténant, BrE lefténant littérateur literatër lorgnette, lorgnon lornyét, lornyón louche loôsh luthier-a maker of stringed instruments such as violins or guitars məshêen madame brothel, Madame title madáme, cf. mádam shopping madeleine mádeleíne mademoiselle madame wàzél maisonette maizonét maître d'hôtel métradô-tél, mâitradô-tél maladroit maladrŏit malcontent malines malêen mandoline (also 'mandolin' in English) mándə-lín margarine marjərìne marque type Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
He was a self-taught musician and the beauty of his compositions lies in the adroit mix of folk, Indian classical and western classical music.
Again the Chilingirian chose a very fast tempo, which required the first violin especially to be extremely adroit.
My hands are bigger, and more adroit, with nimble fingers that can tie shoes, unwrap candies, and get the sand out from between my toes before we leave the beach.
The melodic flow and harmony-vocal crosscut of the lattermost tune stood far and away above so much reggae of the era with an adroit mix of old-school rootsiness and creative expression. AvaxHome
The Labour Party will soon learn the value of these polite demonstrations that it is always its duty not to hamper the governing classes in their very difficult and delicate and dangerous task of safeguarding the interests of this great empire: in short, to let itself be gammoned by elegant phrases and by adroit practisings on its personal good-nature, its inveterate proletarian sentimentality, and its secret misgivings as to the correctness of its manners. New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index
Greece, and, what is worse, from a natural or habitual hebetude, not very adroit, at learning any Thing. John Adams autobiography, part 1, "John Adams," through 1776
They are highly efficient and especially adroit at cutting out excessive steps and cumbersome procedures.
House Republicans adroitly shifted the debate's focus from how much to raise the debt ceiling to how much should spending be cut. The Debt-Ceiling Debate and 2012
They are highly efficient and especially adroit at cutting out excessive steps and cumbersome procedures.
Still the angle was unfavourable, but an adroit flick of his right foot settled the issue. Times, Sunday Times
Tout en fuyant ils ont l’鄏t de tirer de l’arc si adroitement qu’ils ne manquent jamais d’atteindre le cavalier ou le cheval. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
Margot essayed one Scotch air after another, and was instructed in the proper pronunciation of the words; feigning, it is to be feared, an extra amount of incapacity to pronounce the soft "ch," for the sake of giving her patient a better opportunity of displaying his superior adroitness. Big Game A Story for Girls
The beaux distinguished themselves by their adroitness in replenishing this pot from a huge copper tea-kettle which would have made the pigmy macaronies of these degenerate days sweat merely to look at it. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8
In the A minor she adroitly captures the profundities of the first movement with subtle tonal shadings, a seemingly perfect balancing of inner voices with the main line, and a fine sense for selecting her tempos.
Billings was a clumsy, maladroit man, his fingers astonishingly competent with a wireless set, his other limbs ungainly and shambling. IN LOVE AND WAR
There is nothing, indeed, that makes the judicious grieve more than maladroit flattery, which is as embarrassing to the victim as the clumsy caresses of the horse in the fable who tried to emulate the dog's gambols about his master.
This has been an extremely clumsy maladroit approach on the part of the US economic team.
Allen, of course, hotly denies this, arguing that his lusty, maladroit, cowardly, witty and nebbish persona is a comic archetype.
As layered rebuses of meaning with an exceptional iconographic density, they visually manipulated inherited codes of social value, adroitly invoking both positive and negative contemporary references.
It's not precisely SF, but it deploys SF tropes adroitly - not that it would matter if it didn't. MIND MELD: Non-Genre Books for Genre Readers
We sometimes refer to this kind of behavioral mistake as "maladroit". Archive 2009-05-01
I groaned internally as I recalled the plane ride where I had maladroitly gotten sick all over Ross.
Through cogitatio, "a combinative or compositional activity of the mind," 100 the mind is brought under its own gaze to select, arrange and recombine its contents according to circumstance. 101 The ability to concentrate, to shift focus adroitly from one's immediate surroundings, was essential for Federico to form prompt and sound judgments, whether in the course of battle or in civil affairs. Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
The adroitness and patience of a long line of monarchs and royal ministers, who moved gradually but steadily to centralize both authority and power in their own hands, were crowned with unimaginable success.
She stumbled, slowing herself maladroitly, as if she had forgotten how to do anything other than run. Mistborn
My hands are bigger, and more adroit, with nimble fingers that can tie shoes, unwrap candies, and get the sand out from between my toes before we leave the beach.
At Trinity College at the University of Toronto, he was even more socially maladroit. He assumed the pose of young Republican and put a poster of Ronald Reagan on his wall.
The surprising and illuminating thing to Westerling was the inspired statement to the press from the Gray Foreign Office, adroitly appealing to Gray chauvinism and justifying the "intrepidity" of the Gray commander in response to so-called "pin-pricking" exasperations. The Last Shot
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?
On n'a peut-être jamais vu de Fiction composée avec plus d'art et plus d'industrie, et il faut avouer {148} qu'il y en a peu où le vraisemblable soit aussi ingénieusement et aussi adroitement conservé. Notes and Queries, Number 69, February 22, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
Both parties are unhappy about the maladroit handling of the whole affair.
Sa rhétorique adroite, à droite, plaît plus que les laïus des vieux renards en complet Archive 2007-03-01
maladroit propaganda
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?
Charlottesville would probably attract many more through travelers and if handled adroitly from a planning standpoint, that would represent a nice business proposition. Meadowcreek Debate: Lynch Responds at cvillenews.com
he dealt with the situation maladroitly
As we approach, their refinement and adroitness become visible, evidence of a virtuosity honed over more than four decades of experimenting with materials and methods. Big Labor and Economy
The subdivision of stock into subject groups calls for flexible and adroit administration.
Estant assis a table, ne vous grattez point, vous gardez tant que vous pourrez, de cracher, de tousser, de vous moucher: que s'il y a necessite, faites-le adroitement, sans beaucoup de bruit, en tournant le visage de coste. George Washington's Rules of Civility
It is a quicker, more technically adroit squad, too. Times, Sunday Times
‘What I expected’ is an adroit compromise between the impulses to form and to freedom: ‘twist’ fails to rhyme convincingly with ‘pass,’ but in that failure assonates and alliterates with ‘questions.’
Allen, of course, hotly denies this, arguing that his lusty, maladroit, cowardly, witty and nebbish persona is a comic archetype.
So what is the standard of competence and performance that we implicitly have in mind when we deploy the standards of "adroit" and "clumsy" when it comes to physical performances? Archive 2009-05-01
I thought of how adroitly, almost balletically, he had controlled that disintegrating machine, until there was nothing left of it but ballistics and velocity, the inevitable collapse of order into chaos. Spin
a maladroit movement of his hand caused the car to swerve
His "articulacy" comes straight from the teleprompter, he is stumbling and adrift when speaking off-the-cuff, and his "political adroitness" is non-existent, to wit the types of people with whom he chooses to associate himself. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
This is an adroit sidestepping of the issue, but a sidestep all the same.
Legalist institutions that manage that pursuit maladroitly are ultimately swept away.
Those who experienced the heady days of pre-revolutionary Egypt will still long for that Arcadia of cultural refinement and social adroitness. On the Eastern Shore
It is a quicker, more technically adroit squad, too. Times, Sunday Times
Arnstein demonstrates how adroitly Victoria handled several recurring issues that provided the continuities between the two distinct periods of her life.
If our amalgam of shamanistic Orphism, Enthusiasm, and Gnosticism can mask so successfully as Christianity, why cannot it as adroitly impersonate Buddhism and Hinduism? ‘The American Religion’
I will only make one observation - the Chinese government has been extraordinarily maladroit over the past six months.
In other words, we expect quite a lot from the "adroit" waiter from the point of view of active knowledge gathering and skillful orchestration of movements based on the current cognitive map -- representation of the world and management of the body. Being clumsy
Padlin stared helplessly at his drawing, at his maladroit strokes.
The seashore, sea seen from shore, shore seen from sea; the taste of two metals in contact; and our enlarged powers at the approach and at the departure of a friend; the experience of poetic creativeness, which is not found in staying at home, nor yet in traveling, but in transitions from one to the other, which must therefore be adroitly managed to present as much transitional surface as possible; this command of two elements must explain the power and charm of Plato. Representative Men
He was clearly reserved and rarely affable: he had little of Henry VIII's false heartiness nor of Elizabeth I's adroit condescensions.
If Lott's original words are not enough to disqualify him as Senate leader, then his maladroit grasp of public relations should be.
Shakespeare, socially adroit and professionally gifted, would have been well placed to make his big career move into the Chamberlain's Men.
The ball bobbled viciously as it approached the near post, but Miller adroitly launched himself into its path.
But the contrabandists were occasionally too adroit for him.
In less skillful hands, the plot — and there is a good, strong plot — might have foundered in bathos, but Dean adroitly sticks to the high road; although she afflicts her characters with terminal cancer, Alzheimer’s, alcoholism, and adultery, these trials, rather than defining the people who suffer them, serve to reveal their fiber. New Fiction
Ruddy claimed that there is no formal or business relationship with Trump but added, Trump realizes the great potential of Newsmax and has been using it very adroitly. Terry Krepel: Newsmax Gets Trumped
Armitage, the facile, the adroit, a perfect Mercury and old in experience, called in four linkmen waiting by their ladies 'empty chairs in the street outside. The Ladies A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty
Few bands, if any at all, can challenge their adroitness on stage as they are simply magical.
Hyde Park Corner article, and not the old "shandrydan" with which some remote squatter might at times have galloped into town, poising himself with practised and needed adroitness on nature's bush track, behind a pair or more of the hundreds of nags on his run. Personal Recollections of Early Melbourne and Victoria
But humble people do not claim - as Bernanke does, under Congress 'mandate - the competence to simultaneously produce, with "adroit" policies, price stability and full employment. HeraldNet.com Local, Sports, Business and Entertainment News
While lacking in merit as a decision-maker, he was extremely adroit in working the congressional funding process.
You mentioned in your presentation that particularly younger people who are both adroit and adept at the new technology, thrive in that environment.
Our language expresses this supremacy of the favoured side in the terms dexterity, adroitness and address, all of which allude to the right hand. The Life of the Spider
Luckily the orchestra, under Lothar Koenigs, were playing so adroitly that the slipped dialogue and consequent collapse of surtitles in the prologue hardly mattered, expertly brought back on course by the nimble conductor. The Turn of the Screw; Ariadne auf Naxos; Les pêcheurs de perles; Mitsuko Uchida
Even the most clever, adroit, and skillful legislature cannot achieve zero risk in human affairs.
In the 1930s and in the 1960s, all sorts of maladroit, stodgy unions did quite well.
Her coiffeur La Plume let the last finely curled lock fall adroitly over her shoulder, and folding his hands over the paunch in his shirt frills, like some decadent Pharaoh, admired his work from the shadow of a Dara statue.
He adroitly smoothed over marital difficulties and the couple moved to Germany, where he filed the divorce papers.
DOBBS: That kind of adroitness has not been particularly visible on the part of either campaign in this election, at least in terms of the issues. CNN Transcript Aug 24, 2004
Chelsea, however, lack adroitness and it is not easy to envisage them coming up with an inexpensive scorer such as United's Javier Hernández, with the initial fee to the Mexican club Chivas de Guadalajara thought to be no more than £6m. Chelsea will be galvanised by the sight of Manchester United
an adroit technician
Her poetry displays an adroit mastery of simple language and an eye for the fine threads woven into ordinary lives.
Smeared and cross-hatched, the objective correlative here is adroitly drawn out, counterpointed throughout the poem by the woman's querulous responses.
The chief circumstance to which he owed this sudden wave of popularity was the adroitness with which he succeeded in putting himself at the head of the particular movement of which Daniel the Stylite was both the coryphaeus and the true inspirer. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
He was unkind to Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, while devoting a whole essay to the adroit but decidedly lesser The Hidden Fortress.
The melodic flow and harmony-vocal crosscut of the lattermost tune stood far and away above so much reggae of the era with an adroit mix of old-school rootsiness and creative expression. AvaxHome
Definitely worth seeing for just the technical achievement in visuals and definiately for the 3-D, which I thoughts was handled adroitly. Avatar: The Good and The Bad
It is generally understood that he owes his success in the political arena in no slight measure to the adroitness which is born of his invulnerable presence of mind. The Beetle
A self-confessed hero-worshipper, he adroitly patched into a network of national self-regard and milked it for all it was worth.
A single maladroit quip or an unscripted dramatic moment on the campaign trail could spell the difference between victory and defeat.
The adroit and intelligent use of other men's work, says Prodwit, ‘leads to public applause and adequate remuneration.’
In one measured, maladroit motion - only after he had lined up the shot with the ball resting in his right palm - O'Neal aimed and fired.
Cependant elle peut rester des heures aupres de Timulus, le seul qui sait d'ailleurs lui decrocher un sourire et la faire rire a cause de son côté reveur et maladroit. Pinku-tk Diary Entry
While most of the army's accomplished horsemen served in the Cavalry, the Field Artillery used horses to draw its caissons, and officers needed to learn to ride adroitly.
The results included muddled avant-garde theatrical staging techniques and insensitive and maladroit portraits of African Americans.
Dowd wasn't adroit enough to keep from getting caught chopping up quotes to distort their meaning, as she did with President Bush in 2003 - from which bloggers coined the term "dowdify". Yahoo! Buzz US: Top Stories
Clarendon admired his dexterity and adroitness.
Alan Johnson said immigration policy had been "maladroit". Evening Standard - Home
The man stumbled maladroitly, still holding his bleeding side. Mistborn
Beckham adroitly chips a dangerous ball into the box - who does he think he is, Zidane?
The sea-shore, sea seen from shore, shore seen from sea; the taste of two metals in contact; and our enlarged powers at the approach and at the departure of a friend; the experience of poetic creativeness, which is not found in staying at home, nor yet in travelling, but in transitions from one to the other, which must therefore be adroitly managed to present as much transitional surface as possible; this command of two elements must explain the power and the charm of Representative Man (1850)
They always looked bright, inventive, intelligent and technically adroit in attack and could have been awarded a couple of penalties in the first half. Times, Sunday Times
From a rough start, he has proven adroit at managing these public moments.
As a boy he was physically weak and maladroit, and at the same time acutely self-conscious about what he felt to be his unprepossessing appearance; in consequence, he played no part in games and tended to be a natural prey to bullies.
His fluency was as remarkable as ever, and at first as spleenful; by-and-by his outrageous mood gave way, and, in response to some of Rainham's adroit thrusts, he condescended to stand on his defence. A Comedy of Masks A Novel
The series was also notable for the wonderfully adroit way it visually mixed the father's past and present, and segued from one to the other.
Small substance in that Figaro: thin wiredrawn intrigues, thin wiredrawn sentiments and sarcasms; a thing lean, barren; yet which winds and whisks itself, as through a wholly mad universe, adroitly, with a high-sniffing air: wherein each, as was hinted, which is the grand secret, may see some image of himself, and of his own state and ways. The French Revolution
Although the attack was adroit - and enjoyable to read - its arguments are not convincing.
Clinton's maladroit staffing decisions contributed to the political turmoil of his initial years in the White House.
Since then he has shown every sign of being a pragmatist, an adroit politician and a very hard worker.
With an adroit and intelligent adaptation, Ruiz has forced us to reflect on how we make our own lives into stories, and how we tell them to ourselves.
But this play, in which the action takes place in real time, displays not only his technical adroitness but his psychological understanding of the havoc created by the happily well-meaning. Absent Friends - review
In the end, then, Shaw's greatest skill turned out to be not in adroit plot construction, but in creating good roles for actors.
Alan Johnson admits Labour has been 'maladroit' in its handling of ministers to acknowledge they've made a shambles of immigration - and then two WN.com - Articles related to Walmart Black Friday 2009 ads sales full list of items
And carefully taking one of the eggs of the bernicle goose, he broke the shell at its end, and adroitly swallowed the inside without any further formalities. Godfrey Morgan A Californian Mystery
So adroit was his handling, one knew he too must have performed it many times in its natural outdoor environment all those years ago. Tommy Cooper: Always Leave Them Laughing
Firm establish object - oriented concept and process designing thought, master the basic method that OO devises adroitly.
There is a certain adroitness about the world that sometimes seems missing from American policy. Matthew Yglesias » And Now Nigeria
If we were intelligently created, why was it done so maladroitly? Stuart Whatley: On Darwin's Birthday, Examining Why Evolution Is True
But those who run the game in Pakistan so maladroitly would do well to stick with Butt. Salman Butt: 'In these dark days for Pakistan, cricket can lift spirits'
Coleman exploited the issue adroitly, never making it personal or disrespectful, but always mentioning the need for new ideas and fresh energy in Washington. The Good Fight
A single maladroit quip or an unscripted dramatic moment on the campaign trail could spell the difference between victory and defeat.
But colleagues say he is politically adroit. Times, Sunday Times
No one perceived his adroit under-meaning; but Eva bethought herself of her school-phrases, and venturously selected one. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864
Akin to an artist to his canvas, he plays with an adroit cunning that is matchless to his peers.
The most adroit panderer among leading Republican hopefuls has to be Mike Huckabee, who is apparently an actual, warm-blooded human. Michael Sigman: Pander-monium Breaks Out Among 2012 GOP Hopefuls
Homère les fait adroitement rentrer dans la Vraisemblance humaine par la simplicité de ceux devant qui il fait faire ses récits fabuleux. Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature
We should not be guided by how to get the United States out of the quagmire it has so maladroitly manufactured.
In the long run, however, adroit its marketing, takeover may be the only solution.
Acerbic, sharp-witted and adroit at playing any instrument ever invented, he transformed the image of pre-mediaeval music from scholarly study to sheer fun.
There's little ambiguity about the adroitness of the guitarists' noise making, and their deft improvising takes the album in sundry directions.
He immediately whipped his arm upward, throwing off her Pull, making her spin maladroitly in the air. Mistborn
Their stories are narrated with sharp adroitness and lessons are drawn that apply to our modern-day craving for supermen and saviours.
So adroit was his handling, one knew he too must have performed it many times in its natural outdoor environment all those years ago. Tommy Cooper: Always Leave Them Laughing
They focused on three different social skills: social anxiety, social adroitness, and self-monitoring.
Throughout, a strong ensemble cast adroitly tackles the distinctive performance styles demanded by this playwright. The Times Literary Supplement
It is a quicker, more technically adroit squad, too. Times, Sunday Times
The dank cave floor swarms with flesh-eating dermestid beetles, which museums often employ to clean animal skeletons; should a maladroit bat fall into their midst, they'll reduce it to bones in minutes.
Since then he has shown every sign of being a pragmatist, an adroit politician and a very hard worker.
The fact of Madame Olenska's "foreignness" could hardly have been more adroitly emphasised than by this farewell tribute; and Mrs. van der Luyden accepted her displacement with an affability which left no doubt as to her approval. The Age of Innocence
-- Whether the word "adresse" means cleverness, dexterity, adroitness, or simple technical skill, the thing itself is something which the French have always admired more than the Normans ever did. Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres
Looming up in the shadows behind Andy's head was the outline of a sleek UFO balanced adroitly on a slender pole. MUSIC FOR BOYS
an adroit negotiator
Perhaps I'm too cynical, but only commercial reasons spring to my mind when I try to justify this maladroit wraparound device.
It may have once been a monstrous 793 carets, before a jeweler's maladroitness and a few subsequent refinements chopped it to the mere 109-caret chunk it is today.
They dig for juicy details as adroitly as they do the crossword and jigsaw puzzles that they plug away at.
The two tropes are geology and archaeology integrated into an anecdotal, memorialising narrative form that demands admiration for its adroitness.
Lula : That Johnnie is digit adroit detective. You undergo how clever?
In the long run, however, adroit its marketing, takeover may be the only solution.
The adroitness and patience of a long line of monarchs and royal ministers, who moved gradually but steadily to centralize both authority and power in their own hands, were crowned with unimaginable success.
So adroit was his handling, one knew he too must have performed it many times in its natural outdoor environment all those years ago. Tommy Cooper: Always Leave Them Laughing
Adroitly, I avoided putting my feet on any rainbowed design the sun made through the stained-glass windows in the doors. My Sweet Audrina
So, these vines are actually moving these people, explaining their maladroit walking patterns.
I adroitly delude myself that I have the know-how and Con cred to efficiently maximize my enjoyment, but my plans, without exception, get tossed shortly after I grab my badge. 7 Reasons to Attend Worldcon
Small-scale land restitution to those who could prove they owned it before 1947 has been maladroitly handled.
And so much unlike his younger brother, Eric was maladroit at handling simple home economics tasks.
We hop, skip, jump around and over it, at least twice a day, familiar now, to the danger, adroit at avoidance.
a flame fed overmuch with experience, with sophistication, grown cold under the ministrations of adroitness, and lighted now by the "crudity" of John's love-making. Lady Baltimore
The adroit use of her lover's Christian name goaded his lordship to sudden heat. The Wings of the Morning
The journey's scarcely begun when he discovers a stowaway: Russell, a chubby, maladroit Wilderness Explorer Scout who's out to earn his Elderly Assistance Badge.
But what is impressive is the way that their dialogue, often callow and maladroit, is callow and maladroit in precisely the right way.
It's a rare horror movie and however the filmmakers may have endeavored to make more than just a horror movie doesn't knock this out of that category that really cares about people, however maladroitly that concern occasionally comes across. It's different for everybody
They are highly efficient and especially adroit at cutting out excessive steps and cumbersome procedures.
The line I've repeated to myself over the decades was spoken by Garth's grumbling gardener and eventual murderer, who is introduced as he attempts maladroitly to trim the kudzu from Garth's New Orleans plantation. Zomdingo
A single maladroit quip or an unscripted dramatic moment on the campaign trail could spell the difference between victory and defeat.
Management breastpin argali gleet in conceitedly curacoa an snappish maladroitly suckerfish undulate aloft planetal indubitably a slantingly thyroglobulin is exigency the oreide. Rational Review
He hoped the venture would help generate tourism as the society planned to invite groups adroit in the ancient art of change-bell ringing to the Barbon church.
Still the angle was unfavourable, but an adroit flick of his right foot settled the issue. Times, Sunday Times
an exceptionally adroit pianist
He says this and previous Governments have been "maladroit" (I think that means they have been shite as Governments) in the handling of immigration > The British National Party
In one of the adroitly deployed subplots, he disinters a family secret that reconciles an estranged mother and daughter. Tonight's TV highlights
AmE lieuténant, BrE lefténant littérateur literatër lorgnette, lorgnon lornyét, lornyón louche loôsh luthier-a maker of stringed instruments such as violins or guitars məshêen madame brothel, Madame title madáme, cf. mádam shopping madeleine mádeleíne mademoiselle madame wàzél maisonette maizonét maître d'hôtel métradô-tél, mâitradô-tél maladroit maladrŏit malcontent malines malêen mandoline (also 'mandolin' in English) mándə-lín margarine marjərìne marmalade - màrmalâde marmite marquee Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
Most of the novel is arrogant and a caricature, yet that's preferable to Mr. Pierre's lachrymose attempts to gin up sympathy for his maladroit hero: Gabriel thinks of his mother, What I wouldn't give to hug her now, that smiling, woolly person. Art's Power to Humiliate and to Heal
But colleagues say he is politically adroit. Times, Sunday Times
Both parties are unhappy about the maladroit handling of the whole affair.
She was not without a certain kind of sprightliness that passed for intelligence; and she could by her adroitness of manoeuvre Autobiography of a female slave,
Can someone trace the etomology of: adroit skin flutist ETYMOLOGY OF ‘I DRINK YOUR MILKSHAKE’
Estant assis a table, ne vous grattez point, vous gardez tant que vous pourrez, de cracher, de tousser, de vous moucher: que s'il y a necessite, faites-le adroitement, sans beaucoup de bruit, en tournant le visage de coste. George Washington's Rules of Civility
One reason is that Clinton is a far more adroit politician than Dukakis.

How To Use Adroit In A Sentence

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