| 知识 | French is a “Romance” language, that is, a language based on Roman or Latin (as are, also, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, and Romanian), and so Latin malus became French mal, bad, the source of maladroit, clumsy, bungling, awkward, unskillful, etymologically, having a “bad right hand.” The noun is maladroitness. |
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| 《》 | first the bad news |
| 出处 | Word Power Made Easy SESSION 22 |
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