unskillfulness
Example Sentences
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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 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
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
Thou knowest my unskillfulness; teach me the wondrous things out of Thy law and heal me.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 09 — Lives and Letters by Mee, Arthur
Unskillfulness -- N. unskillfulness &c. adj.; want of skill &c.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark
