- a variation of skill-less.
skilless
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I cannot guess her thought, but well I ween Such gifts are skilless to atone such crime.
From The House of Atreus by E. D. A. (Edmund Doidge Anderson) Morshead
"Alas! my lord," cried the page, "I would that I could give my life to aid him; but my fingers are skilless and feeble."
From Calavar or The Knight of The Conquest, A Romance of Mexico by Robert Montgomery Bird
Words ending in double l, in taking ness, less, ly, or ful, after them, generally omit one l; as, fulness, skilless, fully skilful.
From English Grammar in Familiar Lectures by Samuel Kirkham
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
So far from wandering, she was able to talk to him; to talk and to thank him gratefully for his earnest but skilless attempts to make her more comfortable.
From Stranded in Arcady by Francis Lynde
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