skilless

American  

[skil-lis] / ˈskɪl lɪs /

adjective

1. skill-less.

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Other Word Forms

• skillessness noun

Example Sentences

A little patience, youth! 'twill not be long, Or I am skilless quite: an idle tongue, A humid eye, and steps luxurious, Where these are new and strange, are ominous.

From Endymion A Poetic Romance by Keats, John

Now, as you have long since learned, my tongue was but a skilless servant; and though I sought to make the command the gentlest plea, she took instant umbrage and struck back smartly.

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 Lynde, Francis

I cannot guess her thought, but well I ween Such gifts are skilless to atone such crime.

From The House of Atreus by Morshead, E. D. A. (Edmund Doidge Anderson)

But his parrying of her question was passing skilless.

From The King of Arcadia by Lynde, Francis

Tom was conscious of every fleck of dust on his clothes and shoes; of the skilless knot in his necktie; of the school-desk droop in his shoulders; of the utter superfluousness of his big hands.

From The Quickening by Ashe, E. M.