maladroitness

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

maladroitness
    n 1: unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training [syn:
         {awkwardness}, {clumsiness}, {ineptness}, {ineptitude},
         {maladroitness}, {slowness}]

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]

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