unskilful BrE
unskillful AmE

And so is all life a timid and unskilful spectator.

The unskilful typesetter on piece rates simply took home less pay; bad imposition cost the masters money.

By that time unskilful treatment had made the wound mortal and the King knew that he was dying.

With an unskilful boatman such a thing not unfrequently occurred.

Whatever he may have been taught by unskilful Idlers to believe, labour is necessary in his initiation to idleness.

Martello's unskilful verses were still in his mind.

For it is only the disease of the unskilful, to think rude things greater than polished; or scattered more numerous than composed.

Hudson wrote that Sempill was "a raw piece to employ and one unskilful, only a scholar."

Her rouging was thorough but unskilful.

Anything but unskilful.

Buddhists call such anxiety an 'unskilful state' because it can only embed a person in the ego he is seeking to transcend.

And, though unskilful, why not Ned and I For once allow'd the skilful pilot's charge?

These must be defamed and excluded as "untrained", "unskilful", "quacks", or "perpetrators of hoaxes".

But all this is very different from that irrelevancy of intrigue which disfigures and very usually damns the work of the unskilful artist.

That man, who, as a matter of fact, recognized him at once, let him have a fresh mule, which the fugitive, heavy and unskilful, had ridden to death.

I am glad I am so acquit of this tinder-box: his thefts were too open; his filching was like an unskilful singer-he kept not time.

"I fancy," said Poirot, "that he was known here as Robert, a rather unskilful waiter...." Lutz had gone nearer, bending over the body.

Yet is not the State endangered by the artisan's throwing off a refuse of ill-paid and starving men who are either too many for the work or unskilful at it?

To neglect these rules, to break these laws in the smallest particular is to incur failure, and may even expose the unskilful practitioner himself to the utmost peril.

In some of its details it has the appearance of a rather unskilful combination of two orders, for the exorcism, renunciation and confession of faith come twice over.

Such a lifestyle as well as keeping a person out of harm's way brings about over time a purification of any taints brought about by unskilful past activities.

National Guards are unskilful, and of doubtful purpose; Soldiers are inclined to mutiny: there is danger that they two may quarrel, danger that they may agree.

Hope looked down the fell where Colonel and Mrs Moore were strolling with unskilful aimlessness, taking care never to look up towards the two figures on the rump of mountain.

Crooke had successfully ousted the previous keeper, the layman Thomas Jenner, after a campaign in which he had castigated his rival for being "unskilful in the practice of medicine".

Over the course of time, though, they began behaving in various unskillful ways.

Phil, however, feared to trust the violin in unskillful hands.

French drivers are adventurous and even aggressive, but not unskillful.

I am afraid that what was first done was unskillful, if not worse than useless.

Time to clear my head of unskillful thoughts.

Certainly, committing more skillful and fewer unskillful actions is beneficial.

The speedster was making a rough and unskillful, but not catastrophic landing.

Inside the envelope were two sheets of paper covered with the familiar unskillful typewriting.

Works by unskillful choreographers to grandiose music can be dreary indeed.

An unskillful rider and untrained horse will often themselves be thrown when the strain comes.

As per this sutta, In the past unskillful behavior was unknown among the human race.

Whatever a greedy person fabricates by means of body, speech, or intellect, that too is unskillful.

Both options were undesirable-or, as the Buddha would say, "unskillful."

Because of his unskillful answer the teacher reaps the result of living 500 lives as a wild fox.

I want power,' that too is unskillful.

Now that which is proposed to your majesty is dishonest and unskillful at the same time."

I believe the poor fellow was trying to play both sides of the game, with the usual success of the unskillful.'

Klesa-mara, or Mara as the embodiment of all unskillful emotions.

And the Senate Judiciary Committee's unskillful questioning made it easy for him to lie low.

It's natural to want food when you're hungry, but it's unskillful to fixate on food.

"I'm enormously unskillful at it," he said.

The unintended negative consequences of erosion and native habitat loss can result from some unskillful defensible space applications.

Skillful actions condition the mind in a positive way and lead to future happiness, while the opposite is true for unskillful actions.

Even I was surprised at how unskillful he was, at watching his sword fly onto the hard clay.

He was not unskillful.