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clumsy
Not elegant or well-planned, lacking tact or subtlety
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  1. Not elegant or well-planned, lacking tact or subtlety
  2. Awkward or inefficient in use or construction, difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape
  3. Gauche; inept:
gauche
Lacking grace or social polish; awkward or tactless.
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  1. Lacking grace or social polish; awkward or tactless.
inept
Showing a lack of judgment, sense, or reason; inappropriate or foolish:
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  1. Showing a lack of judgment, sense, or reason; inappropriate or foolish:
  2. Lacking or showing a lack of skill or competence; bungling or clumsy:
  3. Clumsy or bungling
awkward
Difficult to effect; uncomfortable:
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  1. Difficult to effect; uncomfortable:
  2. Not dexterous; clumsy.
  3. Marked by or causing embarrassment or discomfort:
clumsy
Awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous
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  1. Awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous
  2. Awkward or inefficient in use or construction, difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape
  3. Gauche; inept:
gawky
Awkward or ungainly, often, specif., from being disproportionately tall
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  1. Awkward or ungainly, often, specif., from being disproportionately tall
  2. Awkward, ungainly; lacking grace or dexterity in movement
  3. Awkward; ungainly.
graceless
Lacking grace; clumsy.
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  1. Lacking grace; clumsy.
  2. Lacking any sense of what is right or proper
  3. Without grace; clumsy or inelegant
inept
Lacking or showing a lack of skill or competence; bungling or clumsy:
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  1. Lacking or showing a lack of skill or competence; bungling or clumsy:
  2. Showing a lack of judgment, sense, or reason; inappropriate or foolish:
  3. Clumsy or bungling
lumpish
Shaped like a lump, ill defined in shape.
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  1. Shaped like a lump, ill defined in shape.
  2. Like lumps, composed of unshaped or mismatched pieces.
  3. Clumsy or cumbersome.
ungainly
Lacking grace or ease of movement or form; clumsy.
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  1. Lacking grace or ease of movement or form; clumsy.
  2. Difficult to move or to manage; unwieldy.
  3. Awkward; clumsy
ungraceful
(Colloquial, nonstandard) Not graceful; lacking grace.
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  1. (Colloquial, nonstandard) Not graceful; lacking grace.
awkward
Difficult to effect; uncomfortable:
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  1. Difficult to effect; uncomfortable:
  2. Not dexterous; clumsy.
  3. Marked by or causing embarrassment or discomfort:
clumsy
Awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous
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  1. Awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous
  2. Awkward or inefficient in use or construction, difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape
  3. Gauche; inept:
gauche
Lacking grace or social polish; awkward or tactless.
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  1. Lacking grace or social polish; awkward or tactless.
heavy-handed
Alternative form of heavy-handed.
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  1. Alternative form of heavy-handed.
  2. Without a light touch; clumsy or tactless
  3. Clumsy; awkward.
inept
Lacking or showing a lack of skill or competence; bungling or clumsy:
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  1. Lacking or showing a lack of skill or competence; bungling or clumsy:
  2. Showing a lack of judgment, sense, or reason; inappropriate or foolish:
  3. Clumsy or bungling
unskillful
Not skillful.
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  1. Not skillful.
  2. (Obsolete) Ignorant.
  3. Not skillful; having little or no skill or dexterity; awkward
brash
Hasty or unrestrained without regard for consequences:
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  1. Hasty or unrestrained without regard for consequences:
  2. Arresting, pronounced, or ostentatious:
  3. Insensitive or tactless
clumsy
Awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous
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  1. Awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous
  2. Awkward or inefficient in use or construction, difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape
  3. Gauche; inept:
gauche
Lacking grace or social polish; awkward or tactless.
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  1. Lacking grace or social polish; awkward or tactless.
impolitic
Not politic; unwise; injudicious; inexpedient
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  1. Not politic; unwise; injudicious; inexpedient
  2. Not in accordance with good policy; unwise, inexpedient; unadvisable.
  3. Not wise or expedient; not politic:
indelicate
Lacking in consideration for the feelings of others; tactless.
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  1. Lacking in consideration for the feelings of others; tactless.
  2. Not delicate; coarse; crude; rough; esp., lacking, or offensive to, propriety or modesty; gross
  3. Tactless or undiplomatic.
tactless
Not having or showing tact
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  1. Not having or showing tact
  2. Having no tact; unaware or intentionally inconsiderate of someone else's feelings
  3. Lacking or exhibiting a lack of tact; bluntly inconsiderate or indiscreet.
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  • - a sensualist but no fool - received the maladroit and almost insolent inquiry Trojan est-il content?

  • They were maladroit enough to attack him on his least vulnerable side, summoning him before the privy council to answer to a charge of receiving bribes in the administration of justice.

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