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单词 unskilful
释义 unˈskilful, a.
[un-1 7.]
1. Unreasonable. Obs.
c1370Lay Folks' Catech. (L.) 1342 Glotony..is an vnskylful lykyng or loue in tast or tastynge of mete or drynke.1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xiii. 277 Of vnboxome speche,..of scoffyng and of vnskilful berynge.c1400Pilgr. Sowle (Caxton) i. xxx. (1859) 34 They shold serue theyr creatour..with resonable werkes doyng, and vnskylful werkes forbering.c1491Chast. Goddes Chyld. (Caxton) 25 Her rest was full short by cause it was unskilfull and also unlefull.
b. Undiscerning; unwise, foolish. Obs. rare.
c1374Chaucer Troylus i. 790, I may not endure þat þow dwelle In so vnskilful [v.r. onskylful] an opynyoun.c1449Pecock Repr. iii. xix. 413 But that this seiyng is vnskilful may be schewid thus.1568Grafton Chron. II. 30 Robert Losaunge that..by the gift of a thousand pound to the King, was made Bishop of Thetforde, repented him after, and bewayled that vnskilfull deede.
2.
a. Ignorant of propriety. Obs.—1
c1475Rauf Coilȝear 159 Schir, thow art vnskilfull,..Thow byrd to haue nurtour aneuch, and thow hes nane.
b. Ignorant of something. Also with inf. or dependent clause. Obs.
a1547Surrey æneis ii. 493 Striken with dred, vnskilfull of the place.1573Tusser Husb. (1878) 106 Ill huswife vnskilful to make hir owne chees.1600Holland Livy xxii. xxxi. 451 They fell unadvisedly into an ambush, and being unskilfull of the countrie,..they were soon enclosed among many.1667Milton P.L. xi. 32 Unskilful with what words to pray, let mee Interpret for him.
3. Lacking in skill; inexpert.
1565Golding Cæsar 32 The whyche pollicie, though it hadde taken place agaynst sauage and vnskylfull people, yet was not Ariouistus so folysh to loke that it should preuaile against oure army too.1573Tusser Husb. (1878) 15 The father an vnthrift, what hope to the sonne? The ruler vnskilfull, how quickly vndonne?1617Moryson Itin. ii. 49 At his first entering the gouernment, when he was yet vnskilfull in the affaires of that State.1639in Verney Mem. (1907) I. 183 Ther was never soe Rawe, soe unskilfull and soe unwilling an Army brought to fight.1709Berkeley Th. Vision §12 Those unskilful in optics.1765Museum Rust. IV. 460 This operation is nice, and may prove dangerous in unskilful hands.1840Thackeray Shabby-genteel Story vi, He was not unskilful at this kind of exercise.1867G. Duff in N. Brit. Rev. XLVII. 484 The attempts of the foreign evangelizers may often be unskilful enough.
absol.1565Cooper Thesaurus, Imperitum vulgus, the ignorant, rude, or vnskilfull.c1580[see void v. 11].1612B. Jonson Alch. To Rdr., It is onely the disease of the vnskilfull to thinke rude things greater then polish'd.1726Leoni Alberti's Archit. III. 12 b, It hardly happens..that what delights the Judges, shou'd at the same time strike the Unskilful.1762Falconer Shipwr. ii. 251 The gallant boatswain..Prompt to direct the unskilful still appears.
transf.1687P. Ayres To Dryden 15 Could my unskilful pen augment his fame.
b. Displaying lack of skill; clumsy.
a1586Sidney Arcadia i. ix, No more..then..the diligent Pilot in a daungerous tempest doth attend the unskilful words of a passinger.1614Latham Falconry ii. vii. 94 Such Hawkes haue beene euelly ordered, and continued in vncleane and vnskilfull keeping.1651Hobbes Leviath. iii. xxxii. 195 When it seemeth so, the fault is either in our unskilfull Interpretation, or erroneous Ratiocination.1737Glover Leonidas iii. 250 Assyria's sons Their brazen helms display, th' unskilful work Of rude Barbarians.1798Lamb R. Gray xiii, His wounds by unskilful treatment had been brought to a dangerous crisis.1831James Phil. Augustus I. vii, De Coucy..took the instrument, over the strings of which he threw his hand, in a bold but not unskilful manner.
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