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The book’s weaknesses include erratic pacing and unskillful language.

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Aimed at “Ladies, gentlewomen and other unskillful persons”, it listed approximately 2,500 “hard usuall words”, less than 5% of the lexis in use at the time.

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Kim Yo Jong is fascinating mostly because she seems so different from her brother, whose reputation as an unskillful madman belies the calculated and vicious dictator he actually is.

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I had been trying my hand at oil painting, and as we talked, I dabbed bits of paint, unskillfully, on the canvas as Rebecca watched.

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Her hands were unskillful not so much from inability as from the rebellion that stiffened her fingers.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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