maladroitly

"Why did you so maladroitly restore me the handkerchief?"

Schmidt swung back toward the freeway as the man maladroitly pecked on the keyboard.

She Pulled herself down from her duralumin Push to land maladroitly atop a nearby roof.

Flint is the kind of detective who can cagily track a suspect and do it so maladroitly that he winds up being mistaken for a mugger.

But what will happen to those dourly dispossessed, Dodger doomed delinquents: the maladroitly mismanaged Mexicans?

Seafood, which was so maladroitly prepared the last time Bellini by Cipriani was reviewed, in 1987, is now the kitchen's strength.

Still, however maladroitly Mr. Netanyahu handled the Jerusalem case, he did withdraw from Hebron a month earlier.

Not to be outdone, the Connecticut Light and Power Company published some howlers in a pamphlet maladroitly called "Modern Cooking With Gas."

Even those sympathetic to Mr. Arafat, like Philip Mattar, director of the Institute for Palestine Studies here, acknowledge that he is riding a tiger, and sometimes maladroitly.

Not surprisingly, Nader was widely accused of maladroitly mimicking the more private mailing, from Martha Burk to Hootie Johnson, on the issue of female membership at Augusta National Golf Club.

Le Monde said the United States was isolated on bananas and had managed to unite the whole of Europe against it by "maladroitly" including Scottish cashmere among the European products it has chosen to penalize.

The charge was using racist language, which Suarez maladroitly admitted to using with the excuse that it is OK in his home culture, which happens to be thousands of miles from England and which he left for Europe several years ago.

On the other hand, he maladroitly hedges, noting that even if Germany had completely lacked I.B.M.'s efficiency-enhancing tools, "the Holocaust would have proceeded - and often did proceed - with simple bullets, death marches and massacres based on pen and paper persecution."

Just as his reborn campaign was generating fresh momentum, he maladroitly revived fresh doubts about traits that bear directly on his fitness for office: his obsession with conspiracies, his fondness for dishing out unsubstantiated dirt and his willingness to trifle with the voters.

After deliberating for four days how to deal with his adversary, who had thus maladroitly placed himself at his mercy, Charles decided to respect the parole he had given and to negotiate with Louis (October 1468), at the same time forcing him to assist in quelling the revolt.

My group, the Coalition, and I personally feel that, in principle, this is a change for the better. Nevertheless, both the Commission and the Council must remember that relations with Turkey are now Euro-Turkish relations and not Graeco-Turkish relations, as they have either hypocritically or maladroitly maintained in the past.