unskillfulness

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For to use the knife, unless in the extremest necessity, is neither good surgery nor wise policy, but in both cases mere unskillfulness; and in the latter, unjust as well as unfeeling.

From Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Clough, Arthur Hugh

Mithridates concealed the loss, giving it out that it was a small defeat, nothing near so great as reported, and occasioned by the unskillfulness of the leaders.

From Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Clough, Arthur Hugh

The siege of Veii in Tuscany, the first considerable enterprise of the Romans, was protracted to the tenth year, much less by the strength of the place than by the unskillfulness of the besiegers.

From History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1 by Milman, Henry Hart

The meat was brought on again, sliced in a manner which could not conceal the unskillfulness of the original attack.

From The Jester of St. Timothy's by Pier, Arthur Stanwood

Slight fault, unskillfulness, or negligence, either as to the sufficiency of the carriage, or to the driving of it, may render the owner responsible in damages for injury to passengers.

From The Government Class Book Designed for the Instruction of Youth in the Principles of Constitutional Government and the Rights and Duties of Citizens. by Young, Andrew W.