maladroit
He didn't hesitate to fire editors, sometimes so maladroitly that they first found out about their dismissals on television or in the gossip columns.
The disclosure that tenants could return office space was maladroitly handled.
The human figures are deliberately drawn maladroitly, as if the painter doesn’t have the best grasp of anatomy.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Inability and awkwardness
accident-prone
adorkable
all thumbsidiom
amateurish
amateurishly
fumbling
fumblingly
functional illiteracy
gauche
gauchely
inexpert
inexpertly
jack-of-all-trades
jack-of-all-trades, master of noneidiom
klutzy
uncoordinated
uneducable
unenterprising
unequal
ungainly
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Inexperienced (of people)