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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Who shall care about the unpractised loved one?”
From Servian Popular Poetry by John Bowring
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
It is strongly marked by its characteristic style, so that an addition or alteration by another hand would strike even an unpractised ear, as not having the true ring.
From Pastor Pastorum by Rev. Henry Latham
Wit, in our present sense, was yet unpractised, and the modern epigram was not yet discovered.
From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Isaac Disraeli
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
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