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
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
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
We have shown elsewhere the successive manoeuvres by which this was effected, and how vigorously but unskillfully Calhoun struggled to avert his fate.
From Famous Americans of Recent Times by James Parton
