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nonadroit en · ADJ

Etymology

From non- + adroit.

Meanings

1. Not adroit; clumsy; maladroit.
   • He may have no idea of the pressures and constraints under which Mr. Putin acts, but Mr. Trump is a one-man brake on a non-adroit hostility that doesn’t serve U.S. interests. 2018 July 18, Jonathan Chait, “How Trump Turned the Right’s Biggest Russia Hawk Into a Dove”, in The New York Intelligencer:
   • Speakers of basilect American English tend to have no more than a grade school education, if that, to be both culturally disadvantaged and socially nonadroit, and to be very noticeably poor in both competence and performance. 1974, John A. Nist, Handicapped English: The Language of the Socially Disadvantaged, page 80:
   • Another factor against them is their nonadroit perambulatory capability to negotiate land mass. 2013, Neil M. Pine, The Conscious Planet, page 282:

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