workmanlike
Speech parts
1. workmanlike - Adjective
2. workmanlike - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Becoming a workman, especially a skillful one; skillful; well performed.
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At the root of many a woman's failure to become a great cook lies her failure to develop a workmanlike regard for knives.
My movies are unadorned, they're not particularly fancy, I think they're kind of workmanlike in some ways, focusing on the writing and the acting.
Paul McCartney and John Lennon would often write a song a day, so I have the same workmanlike philosophy.
I'm a workmanlike writer. I show up every day and treat it like a job. The old rule that writing is like any other job, the first rule is that you must show up. I'm at the keyboard from 9 to 4 every day.
a competent job
the book is a workmanlike job with chronology and bibliography and index