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maladroit

[mal-uh-droit]
adjective
1.

unskillful; awkward; bungling; tactless; lacking in adroitness: to handle a diplomatic crisis in a very maladroit way.
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He asked a thousand pardons of Madame la Duchesse for being so maladroit.
-- William Makepeace Thackeray, The Newcomes, 1855
ORIGIN
English maladroit is a direct borrowing from French. The first element, mal-, is from the French adverb and combining form mal- “badly, ill,” from the Latin adverb male with the same meaning. The second element is the French adjective adroit “skillful, deft,” in origin a prepositional phrase à droit (also à dreit) “by or according to right; correctly.” The element à is from Latin ad “to, up to, towards.” Dreit (droit) is the French development of Vulgar Latin drēctum, drictum “straightened, straight,” from Latin dīrectum, dērectum “straight, right.” Maladroit entered English in the 17th century.

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2. I agree.

I watch for them with enthusiasm since Trump's inauguration. Which was when I first noticed the new trend in their style.