- a variation of skill-less.
skilless
Americanadjective
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First, climbing nervously to the puddlers' staging on the great dam, and led by near-Napoleon Poodles himself, came the Metropole quota of waiters, scullions, cooks, and porters, willing but skilless.
From The City of Numbered Days by Francis Lynde
A princely hand is skilless at the plough.
From The Rhesus of Euripedes by Euripedes
But his parrying of her question was passing skilless.
From The King of Arcadia by Francis Lynde
Myr.Let me see the wound;100 I am not quite skilless: in my native land 'Tis part of our instruction.
From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry by Ernest Hartley Coleridge
At sight of us, or else because he would not take the water at full speed, the horse reared, pawed the air, and fell clumsily, carrying his skilless rider with him.
From The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady by Francis Lynde
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