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maladroit

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maladroit
adjective
both men are unhappy about the maladroit way the matter has been handled:
bungling, awkward, inept, clumsy, bumbling, incompetent, unskilful, heavy-handed, ungainly, inelegant, inexpert, graceless, ungraceful, gauche, unhandy, uncoordinated, gawky, cloddish, clodhopping, flat-footed, lumbering;
like a bull in a china shop, tactless, insensitive, thoughtless, inconsiderate, undiplomatic, impolitic, injudicious;
British all fingers and thumbs;
informal butterfingered, ham-fisted, ham-handed, cack-handed;
archaic lubberly.
antonyms adroit, skilful.
maladroit Oxford Dictionary of English