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Unskillful

Unskillful \Un*skill"ful\, a. [Spelt also unskilful.]

  1. Not skillful; inexperienced; awkward; bungling; as, an unskillful surgeon or mechanic; an unskillful logician.

  2. Lacking discernment; injudicious; ignorant.

    Though it make the unskillful laugh, can not but make the judicious grieve.
    --Shak. [1913 Webster] -- Un*skill"ful*ly, adv. -- Un*skill"ful*ness, n.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unskillful

also unskilful, late 14c., "foolish," from un- (1) "not" + skillful (adj.). Meaning "inexpert" is from 1560s. Related: Unskillfully.

Wiktionary
unskillful

a. Not skillful. alt. Not skillful.

WordNet
unskillful

adj. poorly done; "a botchy piece of work"; "it was an unskillful attempt" [syn: botchy, butcherly]

Usage examples of "unskillful".

The Abbasids, cleverer politicians than the notoriously unskillful Alids, made use of the Alid propaganda to secure the booty to themselves at the right moment.