as in artlessness
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But then, with seemingly on-the-fly artlessness, Laxe’s camera picks a few of the dancers out.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
14 Nov. 2025
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Whatever benefit the viewer might have enjoyed by seeing managerial strategy play out was destroyed by pitchers’ ineptitude in the batter’s box.—
Stephen J. Nesbitt,
New York Times,
22 May 2026
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His future value to historians will be as a model of hubris and ineptitude.—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
29 Apr. 2026
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“Maladroitness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/maladroitness. Accessed 25 May. 2026.
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