unskilfully
- a word derived from unskilful.
Example Sentences
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Slowly and unskilfully he imitated the old man’s delicate gestures.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
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“Many of the quartos,” he writes, “as our own printers assure me, were far from being unskilfully executed, and some of them were much more correctly printed than the folio.”
From Shakespeare in the Theatre by Poel, William
It is clearly but unskilfully written, and Covell states on the outer leaf that it seems a copy from his manuscript, noted above as Evan.
From A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. I. by Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose
But in spite of all this, the old lady was not convinced that she had played her cards unskilfully.
From The Patriot Piccolo Mondo Antico by Fogazzaro, Antonio
The secrets of the trade are common property, and the act is unskilfully attempted by the mother or older female relation of every pregnant woman who cares to take the risk of an operation.
From The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom by Thomson, Basil