| 释义 | unskilful adjective
 UKold-fashioned(USunskillful)uk /ʌnˈskɪl.fəl/ us /ʌnˈskɪl.fəl/
 not good at doing something, or lacking skills generally:
 Unfortunately, they made a couple of unskilful moves that played directly into the hands of their opponents.
 The drivers are adventurous and even aggressive, but not unskilful.
 This dish reveals the widest possible difference between the work of a skilful and unskilful cook.
 Many of the immigrants were unskilful workers in search of a better life.
 His unskilful management of the expedition did nothing to lower his popularity.
 SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
 Inability and awkwardness
 accident-prone
 adorkable
 all thumbsidiom
 amateurish
 amateurishly
 fumbling
 fumblingly
 functional illiteracy
 gauche
 gauchely
 inexpert
 inexpertly
 jack-of-all-trades
 jack-of-all-trades, master of noneidiom
 klutzy
 unable
 uncoordinated
 uneducable
 unenterprising
 unequal
 
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 unskilled
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