- a variation of unpracticed.
unpractised
Britishadjective
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without skill, training, or experience
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not used or done often or repeatedly
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not yet tested
Example Sentences
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I would fain hear what a young and unpractised tongue would say.
From The Huguenot: (Volumes I-III) A Tale of the French Protestants. by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James
Gozzi was unpractised in play-writing, a man in his fortieth year, and the dramatic card on which he staked his luck might well be considered hazardous.
From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First by Carlo Gozzi
In fact, Ruskin's teaching, like that of the Bible, is not unpractical, but unpractised.
From Letters to the Clergy On The Lord's Prayer and the Church by John Ruskin
This being my first appearance as an author, I am naturally unpractised in the artifices of style familiar to more experienced hands.
From The Mapleson Memoirs, vol I 1848-1888 by James H. Mapleson
The stage, here an emblem of the ideal life as it gleams before unpractised eyes, offers, he fancies, opportunity for a life of thought as distinguished from one of routine.
From Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. by Margaret Fuller
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