unskillfully
Example Sentences
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I had been trying my hand at oil painting, and as we talked, I dabbed bits of paint, unskillfully, on the canvas as Rebecca watched.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 8, 2017
They disagreed with a critic's description of him as looking like "an unskillfully poached egg" or being, as H. G. Wells said spitefully, "an intellectual eunuch."
From Time Magazine Archive
He was said to have brought suit against his New York attorneys for "recklessly, negligently, unskillfully" conducting his defense.
From Time Magazine Archive
"The U.S. hand was repeatedly tipped and unskillfully played," said the commission.
From Time Magazine Archive
There are also certain other legends interwoven with the story, and it seems probable that at least three plays have been, as Dr. Whitley Stokes expresses it, "unskillfully pieced together."
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII by Various
