Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Lacking reason or intellectual power; irrational.
- Lacking knowledge; ignorant; uninformed; unaware.
- Lacking practical acquaintance or experience; unfamiliar (with); untrained or unversed; rude; inexpert.
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- adjective Alternative form of
skillless .
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Examples
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Being skilless in these parts; which to a stranger,
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Orleans recruits under Lockridge, who had just arrived at the mouth of the river, found themselves headed off, and began a long and skilless fight to recover the steamers and make the junction with the isthmus force.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 26, December, 1859 Various
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Being skilless in these parts; which to a stranger,
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However skilless, they cannot help reproducing, any more than water poured from an old ink-bottle can help coming out more or less black; although, if sufficiently pretentious, they can monstrously caricature, especially if they begin with the modest time-worn admission that they are more familiar with the marling-spike than with the pen.
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Being skilless in these parts, which, to a stranger,
Woodstock 1855
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Man and fiend had alike failed a mind, not ignoble, not skilless, not abjectly craven; alike failed a heart not feeble and selfish, not dead to the hero's devotion, willing to shed every drop of its blood for
A Strange Story — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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Man and fiend had alike failed a mind, not ignoble, not skilless, not abjectly craven; alike failed a heart not feeble and selfish, not dead to the hero's devotion, willing to shed every drop of its blood for a something more dear than an animal's life for itself!
A Strange Story — Volume 08 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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Being skilless in these parts, which, to a stranger,
Woodstock; or, the Cavalier Walter Scott 1801
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Being skilless in these parts; which to a stranger,
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And though by skilless builders framed and wrought
Jerusalem Delivered Torquato Tasso 1569
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