workmanlike
adjective
like or befitting a workman.
unworkmanlike
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a word derived from
workmanlike.
Example Sentences
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Mr. Benyon was preparing to deliver his first ball to Mr. Sapsworth, and as I eyed him I noted the extremely unworkmanlike attitude in which Mr. Sapsworth awaited the delivery.
From Amusement Only by Richard Marsh
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 Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe
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 George E. (George Evertson) Woodward
Completed, the bandage looked not too unworkmanlike, and was cool and comforting to the hot throb of the wound.
From Success A Novel by Samuel Hopkins Adams
They often do not appear until long after the decisions which they chronicle have been made and their general make-up is sometimes unworkmanlike and unscientific.
From The American Judiciary by Simeon E. Baldwin, LLD
