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Usage examples of inexpert.

I had consumed several whiskies--the kind the inexpert Yorkshiremen pour as though it was ginger ale-and I had finished with a glass of old Mrs.

I had heard of the beauty doctors who promise to give one a skin as soft and clear as a baby'sand often, by their inexpert use of lotions and chemicals, succeed in ruining the skin and disfiguring the patient for life.

At this hour the settlement's stench contended most strongly with the clean sea breeze, for added to its usual melange of tar-smoke, sulfur, old food and the countless informal latrines was the often startling olfactory spectrum of inexpert cooking: the smell of feathers burnt off chickens by men too impatient to pluck them, of odd stews into which the enthusiastic hand of the amateur had flung quantities of hijacked mint and cilantro and Chinese mustard to conceal the taste of dubious meats, and of weird and sometimes explosive experiments in the art of punch-making.

Lord Emsworth felt in the pocket indicated, and with the air of an inexpert conjurer whose trick has succeeded contrary to his expectations produced a silver-plated fork.

She recalled its reams of nebulous jottings, heliotypes and inexpert sketches, notes, questions, and mementos.

The bearings were 'everlasting', and every moving part, other than the caterpillar treads and the controls, were sealed up, secure from inexpert tinkering.

There was a stock of ladies' and gentlemen's bicycles in a state of disrepair that passes description, and these, the hiring stock, were let to unexacting and reckless people, inexpert in the things of this world, at a nominal rate of one shilling for the first hour and sixpence per hour afterwards.

The ironic smile faded as Maia attacked in a blur of energetic, if inexpert blows, driving the traitor away from Naroin's crumpled form, step by step, right up to the port-side rail.

Bill Tybee had been brought to the Moon, along with other parents, to work, in his inexpert way, on the interpretation of the Blues' activities—and, of course, to be with his kids, as best he could.

Bill Tybee had been brought to the Moon, along with other parents, to work, in his inexpert way, on the interpretation of the Blues' activities -- and, of course, to be with his kids, as best he could.