unhandiness
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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
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 Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
The fireman and the coal-trimmer set the pace, and with a fine contempt for the unhandiness of amateurs did not fail to give a display of their utmost.
From A Master of Fortune Being Further Adventures of Captain Kettle by Stanley L. Wood
Seeing the hurry and the unhandiness of the missile, it was excellent.
From The Lady of Blossholme by Henry Rider Haggard
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 Julian S. (Julian Stafford) Corbett
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