maladroitness

The words, taken in a new acceptation, reveal the charming maladroitness of a northern barbarian kneeling before a Roman beauty.

Ricasoli had been driven from office by his own maladroitness and Garibaldi's wild, aimless opposition.

He was playing with the colonel's offering as a child plays with fire, with the same intent face and meddlesome maladroitness.

There was one old hunter in the stables who loyally carried the young man without taking advantage of his maladroitness.

But it was too late now to engage in the struggle, and the minority was to expiate its doctrinairism and maladroitness.