skilless

American  

[skil-lis] / ˈskɪl lɪs /

adjective

1. skill-less.

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Other Word Forms

Derived 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

"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 Bird, Robert Montgomery

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

A princely hand is skilless at the plough.

From The Rhesus of Euripedes by Euripedes

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 Lynde, Francis