The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unskillful \Un*skill"ful\, a. [Spelt also unskilful.]
Not skillful; inexperienced; awkward; bungling; as, an unskillful surgeon or mechanic; an unskillful logician.
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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.
Wiktionary
adv. In an unskilled manner.
Usage examples of "unskillfully".
Most cases of nervous diseases that come to us, for examination and treatment, do so after having tried, without success, treatment by baths, enforced seclusion, as well as unskillfully applied electrical treatment and massage.
And they often labored hard and long to prove points of little or no importance, while points of greatest moment were left untouched, or handled so unskillfully as to do harm rather than good.
Yet the circumstances of their trial and condemnation were so unskillfully managed, that these wicked men obtained, in the public opinion, the glory of suffering for the obstinate loyalty with which they had supported the cause of Constantius.
Not badly, not unskillfully, but Rose knew him, and could tell what he was after.
I was a great student of the human heart, and felt that these reproaches of Anastasia's (such was her name) were really advances, but unskillfully made, for if she had wanted more of me, she should have held her peace and bided her time.