unskillful
adjective
not skillful; clumsy or bungling.
unskillfulness
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a word derived from
unskillful.
Example Sentences
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The unskillfulness of labor is more than overcome by the excess of fertile and naturally productive land, of rich sites still unoccupied, the cream of which, as it were, needs only to be culled.
From Principles of Political Economy, Vol. II by Wilhelm Roscher
Slight fault, unskillfulness, or negligence, either as to the sufficiency of the carriage, or to the driving of it, may render the owner responsible in damages for injury to passengers.
From The Government Class Book Designed for the Instruction of Youth in the Principles of Constitutional Government and the Rights and Duties of Citizens. by Andrew W. Young
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
The amount of jagged dark line which then will mark the limits of the squares will be the exact measure of your unskillfulness.
From The Elements of Drawing In Three Letters to Beginners by John Ruskin
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
