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Unskilled

adjective

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"

Lacking professional skill or expertise. Synonyms: amateur, amateurish, inexpert. "Inexpert but conscientious efforts" , "An unskilled painting"

Not doing a good job. Synonym: incompetent.

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... between bullockies on the long road from Northern Queensland, riots in Perth when the pearlers came in off the Barrier Reef to spend their pay, rows in the big shearing sheds when the Union men objected to unskilled labour—you'd have thought Australia was one big battlefield, with nothing else but fights worth talking ...

— Affair in Araby • Talbot Mundy

... vegetables; then wine, oil, vinegar, salt, honey, meat, fish, cheese, salads, and nuts. After these articles, in chapter VII, we pass rather unexpectedly to the wages of the field laborer, the carpenter, the painter, and of other skilled and unskilled workmen. Then follow leather, shoes, saddles, and other kinds of raw material and manufactured wares until we reach a total of more than eight hundred articles. As we have said, the classification is in the main systematic, but there are some ...

— The Common People of Ancient Rome - Studies of Roman Life and Literature • Frank Frost Abbott

... burn with steadiness? Has he got sufficient strength of will? With all his qualities of heart and brain he has not managed to discard his zig-zag impetuosity. The peasants, who recognize his talents, ask him to captain the ship; but he runs down too often into his cabin and leaves the unskilled sailors on the bridge. Down in the cabin he is feverishly and with great skill writing a contradiction of a ...

— The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2 • Henry Baerlein

... regard—trifles, often more grateful to the sensible mind than efforts of high importance; and by which the proficient in the human heart will accurately trace a passion wholly concealed from the dull eye of the unskilled observer. ...

— Nature and Art • Mrs. Inchbald

... wages. It was the first time I had an opportunity of paying what I thought labor was worth; and I determined to make a good thing of it for once. I figured it right down to European prices,—seventeen cents a day for unskilled labor. Of course, I boarded myself. I ought to say that I fixed the wages after the work was done, or I might have been tempted to do as some masons did who worked for me at four dollars a day. They lay in the shade and slept the sleep of honest toil full half the time, at least all the time I was ...

— Baddeck and That Sort of Thing • Charles Dudley Warner

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