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unskillful

adjective as in not skilled

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Example Sentences

In short, the conservatives were unfortunate, because they were unskillful and imprudent.

If the teacher is unskillful or lazy the remedy for poor recitations usually is, "Take the same lesson for to-morrow."

In unskillful hands the frail dugout would surely have been wrecked or upset.

Thus the unskillful player had to root for it, while the boys, being called together, encircled him and jeered.

Mollie and Betty, the two best skaters, rather hung back, letting the more unskillful Amy and Grace lead the way.

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On this page you'll find 30 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to unskillful, such as: amateurish, awkward, clumsy, gauche, inapt, and inept.

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

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