Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Lack of discernment or discretion; indiscretion. Unskilfulness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Want of skill; ignorance; unskillfulness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete Foolish conduct;
wrongdoing . - noun obsolete Lack of
skill .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Lowest income per person in Yangon is just Ks. 15, 000 (Fifteen Thousands Kyats only) for unskill full-time house-maid.
Global Voices in English » Myanmar: New policy requires HIV groups to register 2009
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Why not go get another 14 million unskill laborers and increase GDP even more?
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There are efforts to obfuscate this obvious fact that increasing the the supply of unskill and semi-skill labor depresses wages, both directly and indirectly, but if works with all other commodities, it works for labor.
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The continual influx of unskill labour from poor immigration policies along with additional unskilled labour being ejected from our educational facilities have compounded the problem.
Road side blitz finds 13 of 30 trucks checked unsafe « Stephen Rees's blog 2008
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Ownership today might be an unskill, a concept that we can't get a handle on because the definitions are so vague and we apply them so irregularly as to seldom learn to master them.
Ownership Clark Aldrich 2006
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It was as if a physician were taught architecture, music, and painting, and then sent out to practise his unskill in medicine upon a helpless humanity.
From a Girl's Point of View Lilian Bell
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For I make others to relate (not after mine owne fantasie but as it best falleth out) what I cannot so well expresse, either through unskill of language or want of judgement.
Of Bookes. 1909
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But since thou dost not inquire into niceties of style but rather moral worth in the subject, therefore in despite of mine unskill in words thou must not despise my pearls though the shells wherein they are found be worthless.
The Founders of the New Devotion: Being the Lives of Gerard Groote, Florentius Radewin and Their Followers. 1379?-1471 1905
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But let it be a friend of your own who is to marry, a friend of your own who dies, and you are to express yourself -- the problem is changed, you feel all the difficulties of the art of style, and fathom something of the depth of your unskill.
Style Walter Alexander Raleigh 1891
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This would ensure the poor and unskill get the training and help needed to compete in a Free Society.
BV on Sports 2009
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