unhandiness
Example Sentences
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The sisters find a remarkable unhandiness among the women.
From Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird
Listing heavily to port, the Tremendous turned with a rapidity that belied her huge bulk and apparent unhandiness.
From The Submarine Hunters A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War by Edward S. Hodgson
The fireman and the coal-trimmer set the pace, and with a fine contempt for the unhandiness of amateurs did not fail to give a display of their utmost.
From A Master of Fortune Being Further Adventures of Captain Kettle by Stanley L. Wood
He continued to laugh as he watched the unhandiness of the man staggering down the gangway under his burden.
From The Man in the Twilight by Ridgwell Cullum
She knows that she is working with tools made to do something else, and never thinks of being angry at their unhandiness.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 92, June, 1865 by Various
