unskillfulness

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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 The Spaniards in Florida Comprising the notable settlement of the Huguenots in 1564, and the History and Antiquities of St. Augustine, Founded A.D. 1565 by Fairbanks, George R.

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

The public interest did not receive so great damage from Octavius's unskillfulness in his management of affairs, as from his omitting needful measures, through too strict observance of the law.

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

The unskillfulness of labor is more than overcome by the excess of fertile and naturally productive land, of rich sites still unoccupied, the cream of which, as it were, needs only to be culled.

From Principles of Political Economy, Vol. II by Roscher, Wilhelm

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