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unworkmanlike

ADJECTIVE

inefficient

Synonyms

WEAK

can't hack it careless disorganized extravagant faulty feeble half-baked improficient improvident inapt incapable incompetent ineffective ineffectual inefficacious inept inexpert not cut out for prodigal shooting blanks slack slipshod sloppy slovenly unfit unprepared unqualified unskilled unskillful untrained weak

Example Sentences

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However unworkmanlike the deed, it had been mercifully done.

From Jude the Obscure by Hardy, Thomas

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

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 Marsh, Richard

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)