maladdress
Britishnoun
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Maladdress, mal-a-dres′, n. awkwardness: clumsiness.
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He writes himself down very clearly as a watcher of scandals and lover of backstairs history; a man of elegance and gentlemanly instincts in a rather small way; a person very easily shocked at social maladdress; a reading man intensely fond of literary company; and a racing man who periodically laments that he cannot cure himself of his love of the turf.
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The maladdress of the king and his appeals to foreign powers only very gradually made him unpopular.
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It is the ancient law of arms that if two cavaliers start to joust, and one either by maladdress or misadventure fail to meet the shock, then his arms become the property of him who still holds the lists.
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