They were maladroit enough to attack him on his least vulnerable side, summoning him before the privy council to answer to a charge of receiving bribes in the administration of justice. How would you define maladroit?
The term proletariat is used in Marxist theory to name the social class that does not have ownership of the means of production and whose only means of subsistence is to sell their labor power for a wage or salary. Proletarians are wage-workers, while some refer to those who receive salaries as the salariat.
Society as a whole is more and more splitting up... into two great classes facing each other -- bourgeoisie and proletariat. (Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels: 'Manifesto of the Communist Party', in: Karl Marx: 'Selected Works', Volume 1; London; 1943; p. 205-06).he Bourgeoisie. The English word ' bourgeoisie ' is derived from the French word 'bourgeoisie' meaning ... the trading middle class (Charles T. Onions (Ed.): op. cit.; p. 110) as distinct from the landlord class.