Example Sentences

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There is no more reason for making these buildings of a temporary character, than there is for putting up our barns and other outbuildings in a cheap and unworkmanlike manner.

From Woodward's Graperies and Horticultural Buildings by Woodward, George E. (George Evertson)

As to the kitchen and dining-room, I leave to your vivid imagination to picture their primitiveness, merely observing that nothing was ever more awkward and unworkmanlike than the whole tenement.

From The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 by Clappe, Louise Amelia Knapp Smith

An oval or round patch is unworkmanlike and does not wear well.

From Textiles and Clothing by Watson, Kate Heintz

A thick edge on a joint gives an unworkmanlike appearance to the work.

From Elements of Plumbing by Dibble, Samuel Edward

It would seem as though they were disgusted with such unworkmanlike proceedings, and that they cannot rest until they have taken it into hand, and endeavored to "make a job of it."

From Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee A Bee Keeper's Manual by Langstroth, L. L. (Lorenzo Lorraine)