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Example sentences for "unskilful"

Lexicographically close words:
unsightly; unsigned; unsilvered; unsinkable; unsized; unskilfully; unskilfulness; unskilled; unskillful; unskimmed
  1. Unskilful shoeing also plays a part in the causation of sand-crack.

  2. Also, they may arise from unskilful fitting of the toe-clip, especially in the hind-foot of a heavy animal.

  3. I am glad I am so acquit of this tinder-box: his thefts were too open; his filching was like an unskilful singer-he kept not time.

  4. Now this overdone, or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve; the censure of the which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theatre of others.

  5. He is driven from one position to another, until he has nothing more to say, just as an unskilful player at draughts is reduced to his last move by a more skilled opponent.

  6. The social feeling of the community was a force on the side of this practice, the careless, unskilful men being avoided by women, while the general romantic sentiment of affection for all the women in the community was also a force.

  7. Balzac's comparison of the unskilful husband to the orang-utan attempting to play the violin has already been quoted.

  8. His unskilful and unlucky management of the sea expedition to Ferrol and the Azores in no way lowered his popularity with the people, but undoubtedly weakened his influence with the queen.

  9. He had been from boyhood a gambler, and at once the most sanguine and the most unskilful of gamblers.

  10. Wilhelm's state was not uncomfortable: the surgeon, an ignorant but not unskilful man, let nature have sway; and the patient was soon on the road to recovery.

  11. The unskilful openness, or in plain Terms, the Indiscretion I have always acted with from my Youth, has drawn more ill-will towards me, than Men of worse Morals and more Wit might have met with.

  12. The unskilful Actor who imagin'd all the Merit of delivering those blazing Rants lay only in the Strength and strain'd Exertion of the Voice, began to tear his Lungs upon every false or slight Occasion to arrive at the same Applause.

  13. We Greeks are by no means unskilful in battle, although we are subdued by the evil scourge[452] of Jove.

  14. These difficulties, arising from unskilful copyists, are infinitely increased by the genius of the Anglo-Saxon poets themselves.

  15. So unskilful or so incurious was Warburton in the language of our ancient poets, that in his notes on Pope he quotes the following lines of Chaucer-- "Love wol not be constreined by maistrie.

  16. The Court and the ladies were adopting this new style, and, as usual, the unskilful were diverging into the most ridiculous affectations.

  17. The ignorance of those ages in manufactures, and still more their unskilful husbandry, seem a clear proof that the country was then far from being populous.

  18. Perhaps Content was himself ignorant of all he wished, or to what unskilful hands he had confided a commission of more than ordinary delicacy.

  19. I must tell you frankly that they have been taken down by an unskilful hand and, in consequence, nearly all their original beauty is lost.

  20. Ignorance of the matter means spoiling a case by unskilful interrogation and neglect of the most important things.

  21. If their stories are objected to they have some extraordinarily unskilful explanation, which again indicates the pathoformic character of their minds.

  22. The same thing is perceived in judicial documents which often reveal the fact that the dictator permitted himself to be led astray by unskilful witnesses, or that he had himself been responsible for abstruse, indirect memories.

  23. Now who can say in such a case whether the sensory glance or the intellectual apprehension was unskilful or unpractised?


  24. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unskilful" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.