unskillfulness

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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 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

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

I presume this is the first time that it has been put in print, but I fear the copy has several corruptions, occasioned by the unskillfulness of the copyist.

From Letters of a Traveller Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America by Bryant, William Cullen

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 Ruskin, John