unskillfully
Adverb
Meaning
unskillfully (comparative more unskillfully, superlative most unskillfully)
In an unskilled manner.
Synonyms
poorly
clumsily
inefficiently
ineffectively
stiffly
ineptly
incompetently
crudely
awkwardly
inexpertly
amateurishly
blunderingly
fumblingly
impoliticly
bunglingly
Antonyms
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One should write not unskillfully in the running hand, be able to sing in a pleasing voice and keep good time to music; and lastly, a man should not refuse a little wine when it is pressed upon him.
Habit, if wisely and skillfully formed, becomes truly a second nature but unskillfully and unmethodically depicted, it will be as it were an ape of nature, which imitates nothing to the life, but only clumsily and awkwardly.