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unpractised

British  
/ ʌnˈpræktɪst /

adjective

  1. without skill, training, or experience

  2. not used or done often or repeatedly

  3. not yet tested

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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And Gretchen met her with ready sympathy,--she was in advance of her, indeed, and could point out to her many beauties that else might have escaped her unpractised eyes.

From Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. by Wilhelmine von Hillern

Who shall care about the unpractised loved one?”

From Servian Popular Poetry by John Bowring

The unpractised vision of the visitor is hardly able to follow the celerity of motion of the workman's hands and fingers.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume II (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Karl Ritter von Scherzer

Having the reins and whip placed in your unpractised hands while coachee indulges in a glass and chat.

From The Portsmouth Road and Its Tributaries To-Day and in Days of Old by Charles G. (Charles George) Harper

Mr. Wogan was not unpractised in the art of consoling Mrs. Barnes.

From Parson Kelly by Andrew Lang

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