unskillfully

Example Sentences

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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.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 8, 2017

After inspecting Nanking, military experts opined that unskillfully constructed dugouts which collapsed of themselves had killed about as many Chinese as any one squadron of Japanese bombers.

From Time Magazine Archive

They disagreed with a critic's description of him as looking like "an unskillfully poached egg" or being, as H. G. Wells said spitefully, "an intellectual eunuch."

From Time Magazine Archive

"The U.S. hand was repeatedly tipped and unskillfully played," said the commission.

From Time Magazine Archive

They have match-locks, but use them very unskillfully.

From Great Pirate Stories by French, Joseph Lewis