unworkmanlike

Example Sentences

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A thick edge on a joint gives an unworkmanlike appearance to the work.

From Elements of Plumbing by Dibble, Samuel Edward

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 Clappe, Louise Amelia Knapp Smith

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 Nicholson, Meredith

However unworkmanlike the deed, it had been mercifully done.

From Jude the Obscure by Hardy, Thomas

It would seem as though they were disgusted with such unworkmanlike proceedings, and that they cannot rest until they have taken it into hand, and endeavored to "make a job of it."

From Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee A Bee Keeper's Manual by Langstroth, L. L. (Lorenzo Lorraine)