unskilful
adjective
lacking dexterity or proficiency
unskilfully
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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
When they are skilfully made they are very pretty and add much to the picture and when they are done unskilfully it is fun to have people guess what they were meant for.
From What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games and Pastimes by Dorothy Canfield Fisher
“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 William Poel
But I do not regret that I took up music and painting, however unskilfully, towards the end of my life.
From Autobiography of Countess Tolstoy by Sophie Andreevna Tolstoy
There was a general impression, in our own navy as well as in the British, that most of the German submarine commanders handled their boats unskilfully and obtained inadequate results.
From The Victory At Sea by Burton J. Hendrick
