maladroitness (maladroitnes)

The character of being maladroit; clumsine ; awkwardne ; want of skill or tact. malady (mal'a-di), n.; pl. maladies (-diz). [ Merlin seide "He shall not dye on this maladye ." malappropriate Why was it that, in that epidemic malady of constitutions, ours escaped the destroying influence? Macaulay, Hallam's Const. Hist. The Comanches think a malady is caused by the blast ing breath of a foe. H. Spencer, Prin. of Sociol., § 125. 2. Hence, moral or mental disorder; any disordered state or condition: as, social maladies. Syn. 1. Infirmity, Distemper, etc. (see disease ); complaint, ailment. mala fide (made with mala fides ceitfully; treacherously: opposed to bona fide. faith: mala bad faith; In Scots law, a mala fide po e or is a person who po e es a subject not his own upon a title which he knows to be bad, or which he has reasonable ground for believing to be so. mala fides (mā'lä fi'dēz). [L.: mala, fem. of mal us, bad; fides, > ult. E. faith; ef. bona fides.] Bad faith.