unskillfulness
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Mithridates concealed the loss, giving it out that it was a small defeat, nothing near so great as reported, and occasioned by the unskillfulness of the leaders.
From Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Arthur Hugh Clough
The siege of Veii in Tuscany, the first considerable enterprise of the Romans, was protracted to the tenth year, much less by the strength of the place than by the unskillfulness of the besiegers.
From History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1 by Henry Hart Milman
Thou knowest my unskillfulness; teach me the wondrous things out of Thy law and heal me.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 09 — Lives and Letters by Arthur Mee
The amount of jagged dark line which then will mark the limits of the squares will be the exact measure of your unskillfulness.
From The Elements of Drawing In Three Letters to Beginners by John Ruskin
Those generals whom the nation has paid without service rendered for so many years, have, in the day of need, with some honorable exceptions, but served to injure her by their bad example or unskillfulness.
From General Scott by Marcus Joseph Wright
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