unskilful

How to use unskilful in a sentence

• Many instruments have had the sound holes spoiled and the surface of the wood inside gored by unskilful tampering with the post.

  Violins and Violin Makers | Joseph Pearce

• Hands, unskilful in fine and delicate work, would be well enough qualified to tend the sick, until the mother arrived from home.

  Ruth | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

• Even with the brook as low as it was, the engineering feat was not easy for our unskilful hands.

  The Idyl of Twin Fires | Walter Prichard Eaton

• The paddle of that most unskilful navigator, Sweeny, snapped in two, and the broad blade of it was instantly out of reach.

  Overland | John William De Forest

• "Stinkpot" she called it, when acknowledging foul elements in the composition and the harm it did to the unskilful balist.

  Lord Ormont and his Aminta, Complete | George Meredith