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Maladroit describes someone who is with people — not deft, not , not sure-footed in a social moment. You might say a maladroit remark, a maladroit attempt to comfort someone, a maladroit politician who keeps saying the wrong thing. It is a rather literary, slightly French-flavoured word; most people in daily talk would say awkward, , or . It can be about hands as well as manners, but in English it is used more for social clumsiness than for dropping a cup. It is not as heavy as rude, and not as medical as maladjusted: the person may mean well and still mishandle the moment.
不圓滑的、拙於待人的（偏書面；日常比較常說尷尬、不得體）
組成Borrowed from French maladroit: mal- (“bad, badly”) + adroit (“skilful”). English also has adroit on its own.
同家族的字
- adroitthe opposite piece: skilful, especially in handling a situation
- maladjustedsame prefix mal-, but that word is about emotional fit, not tact
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
maladroitadj/ˌmæl.əˈdɹɔɪt/
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Not adroit; awkward, clumsy, inept.
- Like the maladroit boy himself, the director does not believe in warming his audience up with narrative foreplay, and it's the same story when we cut to the family home of Julio's girlfriend, whose parents allow him into her bedroom to help her look for her passport, and she gleefully wrenches her tracksuit bottoms down.
- Do you know someone who needs hours alone every day? Who loves quiet conversations about feelings or ideas, and can give a dynamite presentation to a big audience, but seems awkward in groups and maladroit at small talk? Who has to be dragged to parties and then needs the rest of the day to recuperate?
maladroitnoun/ˌmæl.əˈdɹɔɪt/
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Somebody who is inept, or lacking in skill, or talent.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。