craftsmanlike
- a word derived from craftsman.
Example Sentences
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The curious thing is that, in the midst of our own overkill tech culture, the moon shots suddenly look attractively modest, like a decent, craftsmanlike approach to a problem presented.
From The New Yorker • Jul. 20, 2019
I and others dismissed his innovation as assembly line sushi, nothing near the quality of what we were being served at such personal, craftsmanlike places as Kiriko, Mori or Asanebo.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 1, 2017
Its ambitions are high-minded and grandly scaled; its attitude remains earnest, patient and craftsmanlike.
From New York Times • Sep. 6, 2017
There's nothing especially dazzling for them to work with in the script, which is craftsmanlike in plotting but a little heavy-handed with the emotions.
From The Guardian • Jun. 6, 2013
The other two—much less craftsmanlike novelists merely as such, but immeasurably greater as man and woman of letters—remain for discussion in the first chapter of this.
From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by Saintsbury, George
