unskilfulness
- a word derived from unskilful.
Example Sentences
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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 Rosenfeld, Paul
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 Bennett, Arnold
Mithridates concealed the loss, and pretended it was not so great as it really was, but a trifling loss owing to the unskilfulness of the commanders.
From Plutarch's Lives, Volume II by Stewart, Aubrey
Of all the publishers, clandestine or professed, the negligence and unskilfulness has, by the late revisers, been sufficiently shown.
From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces by Johnson, Samuel
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 Johnson, Samuel
