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
For unskilful management tells as ill on wages as inefficient labour.
From Contemporary Socialism by Rae, John
I'm loth to kill you; you are unskilful, sir.
From Dryden's Works Vol. 3 (of 18) Sir Martin Mar-All; The Tempest; An Evening's Love; Tyrannic Love by Dryden, John
And who would have been the most unskilful of teachers, the evil genius of these men?
From Human, All-Too-Human, Part II by Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm
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