unskilful
adjective
lacking dexterity or proficiency
unskilfulness
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a word derived from
unskilful.
Example Sentences
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All the inflexibility and unskilfulness, mistakes and deficiencies, which were formerly disclosed during a long course of study, do not appear now, under the factory system, until the student's public career has begun.
From How to Sing [Meine Gesangskunst] by Richard Aldrich
The cursory pronunciation is always vague and uncertain, being made different in different mouths by negligence, unskilfulness, or affectation.
From A Grammar of the English Tongue by Samuel Johnson
The happy, popular and brilliantly original themes and ideas of the first quartet are organized with a distinct unskilfulness, while the artistic value of the second is seriously damaged by the cheapness of its cavatina.
From Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers by Paul Rosenfeld
He was a greedy man whose evil passion had providentially been kept in check for over a quarter of a century by the gross unskilfulness, the appalling monotony, of a Mrs. Butt.
From Helen with the High Hand (2nd ed.) by Arnold Bennett
Nothing could be prepared to my taste, and I constantly blamed the unskilfulness of the cooks.
From Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers by L. (Laura) Valentine
