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Unskilled   /ənskˈɪld/   Listen
Unskilled

adjective
1.
Not having or showing or requiring special skill or proficiency.  "An enthusiastic but unskillful mountain climber" , "Unskilled labor" , "Workers in unskilled occupations are finding fewer and fewer job opportunities" , "Unskilled workmanship"
2.
Lacking professional skill or expertise.  Synonyms: amateur, amateurish, inexpert.  "Inexpert but conscientious efforts" , "An unskilled painting"
3.
Not doing a good job.  Synonym: incompetent.



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"Unskilled" Quotes from Famous Books



... in any form, used for the production of wealth. It is of two kinds—skilled and unskilled. The former may be wholly mental, the latter ...
— Business Hints for Men and Women • Alfred Rochefort Calhoun

... efforts to imagine what he was to do, with his father on one side expecting him straightway to enter the Church, with Mary on the other threatening to forsake him if he did enter it, and with the working-day world showing no eager need whatever of a young gentleman without capital and generally unskilled. It was the harder to Fred's disposition because his father, satisfied that he was no longer rebellious, was in good humor with him, and had sent him on this pleasant ride to see after some greyhounds. Even when he had fixed ...
— Middlemarch • George Eliot

... one or two customers, I was ordered to complete the shaving operation. My heart thumped because I wondered how the unfortunate German client would fare in my unskilled hands. Bracing myself up I completed the task without a hitch, although I do not think the customer looked any better after I had finished with ...
— Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons - Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben • Henry Charles Mahoney

... which occupied Bulawayo in September, 1895, was that native-labour question which, in one form or another, is always present to South African minds. All hard labour, all rough and unskilled labour, is, and, owing to the heat of the climate as well as the scarcity of white men, must be, done by blacks; and in a new country like Matabililand the blacks, though they can sometimes be induced to till the land, are most averse to working under ground. They are only beginning to use money, ...
— Impressions of South Africa • James Bryce

... northern and eastern states, helped to crowd the cities, and overflowed into the fertile, free lands of the mid-West. Nearly 800,000 of them reached the United States in one year, 1882. Most of them were men—an overwhelming portion of them men of working age, unskilled, frequently illiterate and hence compelled to seek employment in a relatively small number of occupations. Both the chances of unemployment and the danger of a lowered standard of living were increased by ...
— The United States Since The Civil War • Charles Ramsdell Lingley


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