unskillfulness
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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 Henry Hart Milman
Those generals whom the nation has paid without service rendered for so many years, have, in the day of need, with some honorable exceptions, but served to injure her by their bad example or unskillfulness.
From General Scott by Marcus Joseph Wright
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 Arthur Stanwood Pier
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 Arthur Hugh Clough
The amount of jagged dark line which then will mark the limits of the squares will be the exact measure of your unskillfulness.
From The Elements of Drawing In Three Letters to Beginners by John Ruskin
