Sentence examples for unskillful from inspiring English sources

The word "unskillful" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to describe someone (or something) that is clumsy or lacking in technique. For example, "The student's unskillful handwriting made it difficult to read his essay."

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unskillful

adjective

Not skillful.

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Of course, I loved Jonathan and the gas station in that film, but I've always felt about this lumbering heffalump of attempted humor that, "Though it make the unskillful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve".

The very first English dictionary, A Table Alphabeticall, published in 1604, stated on its title page that its approximately 2,500 words (most of them relatively obscure) were intended for the "benefit and help of ladies, gentlewomen or any other unskillful persons".

He had started writing poems, but "so badly, so fake, too self-regarding, I didn't see the world, I was incredibly unskillful".

For Mayor Rahm Emanuel And Judge Gonzalo Curiel, May this unskillful doggerel Renew for them the annual Season's felicitations!

Visitors not making films can wander among the sets and watch short, intermittently amusing but woefully unskillful films that aspiring filmmakers have made thus far.

Wolfe's finished manuscript was rejected by several editors because it "was so amateurish, autobiographical and unskillful," he wrote in "The Story of a Novel," an essay.

The legal filing also accuses clinic workers of failing to monitor Mr. Skori's condition, of lacking the proper resuscitation equipment, of administering the wrong medication and of generally providing "incompetent, unskillful and improper treatment".

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