maladroit

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

maladroit
    adj 1: not adroit; "a maladroit movement of his hand caused the
           car to swerve"; "a maladroit translation"; "maladroit
           propaganda" [ant: {adroit}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Maladroit \Mal`a*droit"\, a. [F. See {Malice}, and {Adroit}.]
   Of a quality opposed to adroitness; clumsy; awkward;
   unskillful. -- {Mal"a*droit`ly}, adv. -- {Mal`a*droit"ness},
   n.
   [1913 Webster]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

65 Moby Thesaurus words for "maladroit":
      all thumbs, awkward, base, blunderheaded, blundering, boorish,
      brash, bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, careless, clownish,
      clumsy, clumsy-fisted, cumbersome, deficient, fingers all thumbs,
      fumbling, gauche, gawkish, gawky, graceless, halting, ham-fisted,
      ham-handed, heavy-handed, hulking, hulky, imperfect, impolitic,
      inadequate, incompetent, inelegant, inept, insufficient, left-hand,
      left-handed, little, loutish, lubberly, lumbering, lumpish, mean,
      mediocre, not comparable, not in it, oafish, out of it, petty,
      ponderous, shabby, sloppy, small, stiff, stumbling, trivial,
      uncouth, undiplomatic, ungainly, ungraceful, unhandy, unskilled,
      unskillful, untactful, unwieldy