Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Skilful; workmanlike.
- In a skilful manner; in a manner worthy of a competent workman.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Becoming a skillful workman; skillful; well performed; workmanlike.
- adverb In a skillful manner; in a manner becoming a skillful workman.
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- adjective Befitting a
workman .
Etymologies
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Examples
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There's something simple and workmanly about it that I really liked.
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Cup of siluer curiously wrought, with verses grauen in it, expressing the histories workmanly set out in the same.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Page 389 from one End of the upper Room: The whole to be built with good Timber, to be ceiled with Plank throughout, painted Inside and Outside, and finished in a workmanly manner.
North Carolina Schools and Academies 1790-1840 A Documentary History Charles Lee 1915
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They had some of their arrows herewith, much like our broad arrow-heads, very workmanly made.
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The book originated as a series of feature articles for the St. Petersburg Times, and it must be said that French's style here never rises above the workmanly, meat-and-potatoes standard of the daily newspaper.
News & Politics <a href="http://bnreview.barnesan 2010
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There's something simple and workmanly about it that I really liked.
NPR Topics: News 2010
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This done, I deliuered her Maiesties present, which was a notable great Cup of siluer curiously wrought, with verses grauen in it, expressing the histories workmanly set out in the same.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 04 Richard Hakluyt 1584
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In my opinion, HOW TO CHANGE SOMEONE YOU LOVE is a decent book, competently conceived, workmanly executed and expressed.
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Md. couenauntyd and agreid wyth Comell Clerke, for the makyng off the dextis in the liberary, to the summe off xvi, after the maner and forme as they be in Magdaleyn college, except the popie heedes off the seites, thes to be workmanly wrowght and clenly, and he to have all maner off stooff foond hym, and to have for the makyng off on dexte xs the sum off the hole viii.li. [
The Care of Books John Willis Clark 1871
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Christ Church College, Oxford) to the summe off xvi, after the maner and forme as they be in Magdalyn college, except the popie heedes off the seites, this to be workmanly wrought and clenly, and he to have all manner off stooff foond hym, and to have for the makyng off one dexte xs. the sum off the hole viii. li.
Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1811
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