workmanlike
adjective
like or befitting a workman.
workmanly
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a variation of
workmanlike.
Example Sentences
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Though he wore a handkerchief mask over the lower part of his face, the tall man in mirror-type sunglasses seemed to show a workmanly patience at his job.
From Time Magazine Archive
She was cool, brusk, hard finished, and, as was evident from Galbraith's manifest satisfaction with her, thoroughly workmanly and competent.
From The Real Adventure by Raymond Moreau Crosby
They require that the “wyndows be well, suerly, workmanly, substantyally, curyously, and sufficiently glase and sette up.”
From Stained Glass Tours in England by Charles Hitchcock Sherrill
I thought she would like to see what nice workmanly things I turned out.
From Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People by Israel Zangwill
As years went on, and he received frequent commissions for all sorts of public painting for festive occasions, his diligence merged in something which may rather be called workmanly offhandedness.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 8 "France" to "Francis Joseph I." by Various
