unworkmanlike
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I instinctively knelt on the hearth and peered up, but saw nothing unworkmanlike: Pepperton was not a fellow to leave obvious mistakes behind him.
From The Siege of the Seven Suitors by Meredith Nicholson
As to the kitchen and dining-room, I leave to your vivid imagination to picture their primitiveness, merely observing that nothing was ever more awkward and unworkmanlike than the whole tenement.
From The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 by Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe
Completed, the bandage looked not too unworkmanlike, and was cool and comforting to the hot throb of the wound.
From Success A Novel by Samuel Hopkins Adams
They often do not appear until long after the decisions which they chronicle have been made and their general make-up is sometimes unworkmanlike and unscientific.
From The American Judiciary by Simeon E. Baldwin, LLD
However unworkmanlike the deed, it had been mercifully done.
From Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
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