maladroit



all thumbs, awkward, base, blundering, boorish, brash, bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, careless, clownish, clumsy, clumsy-fisted, cumbersome, deficient,

   weighed - advised, calculated, considered, studied ,

   stay in line - attend to orders, comply, conform, defer to, fall in with, fall into line, fit in, follow the book, follow the crowd, follow the fashion, follow the rule, get in line, go through channels, harken to, heed,

   bolstered - based on, borne, founded on, grounded on, held, sustained ,

   steady-handed - calm, nerveless, relaxed, steady, unblinking, unfaltering, unflinching, unshaken, unshrinking, unstrained, unwavering ,

   meagre - Lenten, Lilliputian, Spartan, abstemious, angular, ascetic, austere, bare, barren, bony, broad, cheeseparing, chintzy, circumscribed, close,

   shekel - cent, colon, dollar, franc, pie, pound, rouble, shilling, sou, yen ,

   giving birth - bearing, birth, blessed event, born, cast, childbearing, confinement, delivery, genesis, hatched, hatching, labour, nativity, newborn, parturition,

   knell - annihilation, bane, bell, bemoan, bewail, biological death, bong, cessation of life, change ringing, chime, chiming, chink, clang, clanging, clangour,

   thwarted - baffled, baulked, betrayed, bilked, blasted, blighted, crestfallen, crossed, crushed, dashed, defeated, disappointed, dished, disillusioned, dissatisfied,

   slowness - afterthought, amble, antipathy, apathy, aridity, asininity, averseness, aversion, backwardness, barrenness, bind, block, blockage, bloodlessness, boorishness,