The word of the day is maladroit:
< French maladroit clumsy (1538 in Middle French), tactless (1642) < mal-mal- prefix + adroitadroit adj.
Lacking in adroitness or dexterity; awkward, bungling, clumsy, inept. (OED)
"Kushner had calculated that an honorary degree from the New School would bring his total to seventeen, with one more to come the following week, from John Jay College of the City University of New York. The latter had spawned a noisy mess a few weeks earlier, when a maladroit CUNY trustee, having misrepresented to other board members Kushner's views on Israel and Palestine, briefly succeeded in having the honor rescinded: a cause célèbre that Rich, in his speech, would cite as symptomatic of a post-9/11 'climate of ugliness - a new McCarthyism'."
- Mark Singer, "Pomp and circumstance", 6 June 2011 The New Yorker
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