unworkmanlike

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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 Baldwin, Simeon E., LLD

The result was that the ends of the wires projected to various distances above the board, presenting a ragged and unworkmanlike appearance.

From Stuyvesant A Franconia Story by Abbott, Jacob

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

There is no more reason for making these buildings of a temporary character, than there is for putting up our barns and other outbuildings in a cheap and unworkmanlike manner.

From Woodward's Graperies and Horticultural Buildings by Woodward, George E. (George Evertson)

Completed, the bandage looked not too unworkmanlike, and was cool and comforting to the hot throb of the wound.

From Success A Novel by Adams, Samuel Hopkins