unskillfully
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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."
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After inspecting Nanking, military experts opined that unskillfully constructed dugouts which collapsed of themselves had killed about as many Chinese as any one squadron of Japanese bombers.
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He was said to have brought suit against his New York attorneys for "recklessly, negligently, unskillfully" conducting his defense.
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The good Miss Kerkabon trembled lest her nephew, whom she knew to be resolute and expeditious, should perform the operation unskillfully himself; and that fatal consequences might ensue.