Posted on 11/02/2009 4:57:46 AM PST by xsmommy
Word For The Day, Monday, 11/2/09
In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".
maladroit; adj.
lacking in adroitness; unskillful; awkward; bungling; tactless: to handle a diplomatic crisis in a very maladroit way.
Etymology: 1665–75; < F, MF; see mal-, adroit
Related forms:
mal⋅a⋅droit⋅ly, adverb mal⋅a⋅droit⋅ness, noun
Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the Word for the Day in a sentence.
The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day.
The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-)
Practice makes perfect.....post on....
Here is my example with WFTD.
Beck is anything but a maladroit rodeo clown.
Review Threads:
Review Thread One: Word For The Day, Thursday 11/14/02: Raffish (Be SURE to check out posts #92 and #111 on this thread!)
Review Thread Two: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/14/03: Roister
Review Thread Three: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/28/03: Obdurate
No pushing at the door please!
Tomorrow is election day in VA, and i CANNOT WAIT!
Victory or Defeat Day on Wednesday........
Will check back later. I can’t wait to see maladroit in use with descriptions of Obama and his administration’s diplomatic skills.
Newt Gingrich’s maladroit handling of the Dede Scozzafava endorsement has certainly not endeared him to the Free Republic community.
we need to go to photo ID, eye scans, or finger prints to vote........it’s the only way to make it fair. I want my vote to count.....but not against someone who voted three times.
Detroit is maldroit
come back with some homework! ; )
uh oh!! A+
i agree, but the dems will NEVER let that happen. they need to be able to mail in a dozen fraudulent dem votes in case they end up with a shortfall in the voting booth.
welcome to WFTD, you get an A because i was thinking someone had to use this with DETROIT!
These aren’t the maladroits you’re looking for.
You and me both :)
Good morning.
Dede Scozzafava's withdrawal from the New York 23 race, "for the good of the party", and her subsequent endorsement of her former Democrat opponent Owens, presumably for the good of the opposite party, shows considerable talent for maladroit decision-making.
Thanks!:)
i’ll just be the maladroit cyclist and leave it at that.
a woman scorned and all that jazz.......she paid Hoffman back the only way she could.
what did you church look like yesterday? the one I went to had no holy water and most did not shake hands due to the swines.
I’m just thankful she dropped out to begin with. She must have still been playing the role of Republican at that stage.
Good enough a performance to have fooled a smart feller like Newt.
Newtie is proving a dunce.
Scozzafava has turned out to as maladroit a Republican as she is a politicial campaigner.
After handling her campaign in a malatroit manne, Scuzzy decided to drop out and endorse the democratic candidate. This decision, permanently stained Scuzzy public personna as a traitorous maladroit sh*t.
New Jersey Gov Race Tips To Christie By 2 Points, Quinnipiac....may not be enough to overcome voter fraud yet.
At the WH Halloween party this w/e, that was no Malia droid, but the son of the maladroit "Dork Evader", Robert Gibbs...
does he look gay or what?
is there a dirty pic there, bc i can’t see nuttin, and i got GOOD EYES!
morning! polls open at 6 am, xsboy can go over to the polls with his dad before school, so as to vote early and often : )
A++ i am glad she did it because it is PROOF POSITIVE of her RINO status. The dems would have had her switching parties even had she won as a republican. Everyone SAID she was a RINO, she denied it, and then PROVED SHE WAS as soon as she pulled out.
A+++ excellent!
A+++ take off the hairshirt, sig! how you healing?
The liberals are so maladroit
As they search for crises to exploit
And Obama, their hero
The world’s biggest zero
A ten-foot diameter quoit
st james has not changed a whit due to swines. i declined shaking hands with everyone and just smiled pleasantly all around. A woman 2 rows up had a huge dispenser of hand sanitizer which she was handing around to those around her before and after the handshakes. One can be pleasant and peaceful WITHOUT TOUCHING, why are we obsessed with TOUCHING each other, for heaven’s sake?
she took off the RINO suit she was sporting and showed her true lib self A+++
It’s a “Star Wars” reference. Jedi mind tricks. “These aren’t the droids you’re looking for.”
A++ well she should fit right in with her true soulmates the dems!
they have to have a HUGE cushion to overcome those mail in fraud votes! A+++
A+++ eeks, that man makes my skin crawl.
GREAT ONE! A+++
sorry, i am a dunce! A++
what is that CA freeper, who is obsessed with the NY race, up to these days?
well if anyone is going to let germaphobia deter them from voting, i hope it’s the dems!!
In just
9
cycles of moon, say
offal-licious the wee
lame little gas-bag
whistles
far and we
and Barney&Nancy come,
marbleless and dream
piracy
in just
9
when the world is offal-wonderful
the queer
old congressman crows
far and we
and Hill&Rahm come fancying
new looting and tax pay junkets,
in
9
long
months
the maladroit
gasbag whistles
on
&
on
(with apologies to e e cummings , that commie)
I’ve taken to voting after lunch, because it’s sort of in the middle of the polling hours and I am able to get an idea of voter turnout by what number I am :)
i LOVE that, and i generally hate pomes! A+++++
maybe it’s the lack of caps that appeals to me ; )
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