Word Meanings - MALADDRESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Bad address; an awkward, tactless, or offensive way of accosting one or talking with one. W. D. Howells.

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• AWKWARD SQUAD
  A squad of inapt recruits assembled for special drill.
• OFFENSIVE
  1. Giving offense; causing displeasure or resentment; displeasing; annoying; as, offensive words. 2. Giving pain or unpleasant sensations; disagreeable; revolting; noxious; as, an offensive smell; offensive sounds. "Offensive to the stomach."
• ACCOST
  1. To join side to side; to border; hence, to sail along the coast or side of. "So much as accosts the sea." Fuller. 2. To approach; to make up to. Shak. 3. To speak to first; to address; to greet. "Him, Satan thus accosts." Milton.
• ADDRESS
  To consign or intrust to the care of another, as agent or factor; as, the ship was addressed to a merchant in Baltimore. To address one's self to. To prepare one's self for; to apply one's self to. To direct one's speech or discourse to. (more
• ACCOSTABLE
  Approachable; affable. Hawthorne.
• TALK
  OD. tolken to interpret, MHG. tolkan to interpret, to tell, to speak indistinctly, Dan. tolke to interpret, Sw. tolka, Icel. t to interpret, t an interpreter, Lith. tulkas an interpreter, tulkanti, tulkoti, to interpret, Russ. tolkovate
• TALKATIVE
  Given to much talking. Syn. -- Garrulous; loquacious. See Garrulous. -- Talk"a*tive*ly, adv. -- Talk"a*tive*ness, n.
• ADDRESSEE
  One to whom anything is addressed.
• TACTLESS
  Destitute of tact.
• TALKER
  1. One who talks; especially, one who is noted for his power of conversing readily or agreeably; a conversationist. There probably were never four talkers more admirable in four different ways than Johnson, Burke, Beauclerk, and Garrick. Macaulay.
• TALKING
  1. That talks; able to utter words; as, a talking parrot. 2. Given to talk; loquacious. The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade, For talking age and whispering lovers made. Goldsmith.
• ADDRESSION
  The act of addressing or directing one's course. Chapman.
• ACCOSTED
  Supported on both sides by other charges; also, side by side.
• AWKWARD
  1. Wanting dexterity in the use of the hands, or of instruments; not dexterous; without skill; clumsy; wanting ease, grace, or effectiveness in movement; ungraceful; as, he was awkward at a trick; an awkward boy. And dropped an awkward courtesy.
• STALKY
  Hard as a stalk; resembling a stalk. At the top bears a great stalky head. Mortimer.
• UNTALKED
  Not talked; not mentioned; -- often with of. Shak.
• INOFFENSIVE
  1. Giving no offense, or provocation; causing no uneasiness, annoyance, or disturbance; as, an inoffensive man, answer, appearance. 2. Harmless; doing no injury or mischief. Dryden. 3. Not obstructing; presenting no interruption bindrance. Milton.
• STALK-EYED
  Having the eyes raised on a stalk, or peduncle; -- opposed to sessile-eyed. Said especially of podophthalmous crustaceans. Stalked- eyed crustaceans. See Podophthalmia.
• STALKLESS
  Having no stalk.
• STALKER
  1. One who stalks. 2. A kind of fishing net.
• INTERTALK
  To converse. Carew.
• DEERSTALKER
  One who practices deerstalking.
• CORNSTALK
  A stalk of Indian corn.
• HEADDRESS
  1. A covering or ornament for the head; a headtire. Among birds the males very often appear in a most beautiful headdress, whether it be a crest, a comb, a tuft of feathers, or a natural little plume. Addison. 2. A manner of dressing the hair or
• ANTALKALI; ANTALKALINE
  Anything that neutralizes, or that counteracts an alkaline tendency in the system. Hoopplw.
• EYESTALK
  One of the movable peduncles which, in the decapod Crustacea, bear the eyes at the tip.
• OVERTALK
  To talk to excess. Milton.