unworkmanlike

ADJECTIVE

inefficient

Synonyms

WEAK

can't hack it careless disorganized extravagant faulty feeble half-baked improficient improvident inapt incapable incompetent ineffective ineffectual inefficacious inept inexpert not cut out for prodigal shooting blanks slack slipshod sloppy slovenly unfit unprepared unqualified unskilled unskillful untrained weak

Example Sentences

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But Sir Joshua's sketched leaves would indeed imply some unworkmanlike haste.

From Val d'Arno by Ruskin, John

They often do not appear until long after the decisions which they chronicle have been made and their general make-up is sometimes unworkmanlike and unscientific.

From The American Judiciary by Baldwin, Simeon E., LLD

It would seem as though they were disgusted with such unworkmanlike proceedings, and that they cannot rest until they have taken it into hand, and endeavored to "make a job of it."

From Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee A Bee Keeper's Manual by Langstroth, L. L. (Lorenzo Lorraine)

However unworkmanlike the deed, it had been mercifully done.

From Jude the Obscure by Hardy, Thomas

The result was that the ends of the wires projected to various distances above the board, presenting a ragged and unworkmanlike appearance.

From Stuyvesant A Franconia Story by Abbott, Jacob