unskillfulness

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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

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

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 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

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