- a variation of unskillful.
unskilful
Britishadjective
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lacking dexterity or proficiency
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obsolete (often foll by in) ignorant (of)
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It turned out to be an unskilful echo of The Show-Off, well played but cheap and dreary.
From Time Magazine Archive
A good jouster, like Lancelot or Tristram, always used the blow of the point, because, although it was liable to miss in unskilful hands, it made contact sooner.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
They say that the Scriptures in their present form, retain but little of their original purity and beauty, having been so often copied and translated by unskilful hands.
From Gleanings by the Way by John A. Clark
They lived in very great seclusion, greater than was good for them, but Shelley suffered much from ill-health, and not a little from its treatment by an unskilful physician.
From The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume I (of 2) by Florence A. Thomas Marshall
Lower down the streamlet formed a small lake, on which a boat was kept, and where Bruno was wont to row his wife, and try to teach her unskilful hand to guide the oar.
From Baron Bruno Or, the Unbelieving Philosopher, and Other Fairy Stories by Louisa Morgan
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