unhandiness

Example Sentences

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The trouble was that it did not make sufficient allowance for the unhandiness of ships of the line in those days, and their difficulty in taking up or preserving exact formations.

From Fighting Instructions, 1530-1816 Publications Of The Navy Records Society Vol. XXIX. by Corbett, Julian S. (Julian Stafford)

She knows that she is working with tools made to do something else, and never thinks of being angry at their unhandiness.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 92, June, 1865 by Various

Listing heavily to port, the Tremendous turned with a rapidity that belied her huge bulk and apparent unhandiness.

From The Submarine Hunters A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War by Hodgson, Edward S.

Seeing the hurry and the unhandiness of the missile, it was excellent.

From The Lady of Blossholme by Haggard, Henry Rider

It may ha' been from the unhandiness of their movements an' the way they clutched at us an' at one another as we pulled 'em ashore.

From News from the Duchy by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir