unskillful
adjective
not skillful; clumsy or bungling.
unskillfulness
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a word derived from
unskillful.
Example Sentences
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The siege of Veii in Tuscany, the first considerable enterprise of the Romans, was protracted to the tenth year, much less by the strength of the place than by the unskillfulness of the besiegers.
From History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1 by Henry Hart Milman
Those generals whom the nation has paid without service rendered for so many years, have, in the day of need, with some honorable exceptions, but served to injure her by their bad example or unskillfulness.
From General Scott by Marcus Joseph Wright
Unskillfulness -- N. unskillfulness &c. adj.; want of skill &c.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget
Thou knowest my unskillfulness; teach me the wondrous things out of Thy law and heal me.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 09 — Lives and Letters by Arthur Mee
The meat was brought on again, sliced in a manner which could not conceal the unskillfulness of the original attack.
From The Jester of St. Timothy's by Arthur Stanwood Pier
