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 Clough, Arthur Hugh

The public interest did not receive so great damage from Octavius's unskillfulness in his management of affairs, as from his omitting needful measures, through too strict observance of the law.

From Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Clough, Arthur Hugh

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 Milman, Henry Hart

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 Wright, Marcus Joseph

The unskillfulness of labor is more than overcome by the excess of fertile and naturally productive land, of rich sites still unoccupied, the cream of which, as it were, needs only to be culled.

From Principles of Political Economy, Vol. II by Roscher, Wilhelm