The team put up a good workmanlike performance to win 1-0.    From LearnThat.org.  [ldoceonline.com]

Adjective : a workmanlike piece of writing.    From Dictionary.com. 

She was turned out in what one might have called workmanlike fashion, although neat and wholly feminine.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Way of a Man] Reference

It strikes me as competent and workmanlike, which is in stark contrast to most Congresscritters these days.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama for President! - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

Obama had promised a "workmanlike" speech and this seems along those lines.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama's Speech: "America, We Are Better Than These Last Eight Years"] Reference

Whenever I perform a show, there was always a certain kind of workmanlike efficiency to it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2005-07-01] Reference

Had McCarthy written that, the critics would have taken him to task for his "workmanlike" prose.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Reader's Manifesto] Reference

I would describe Castles & Crusades as 'workmanlike'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jeffs Gameblog] Reference

He says Alistair Darling has promised a "workmanlike" budget.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

Mr Darling is promising a "workmanlike" Budget, with no baubles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Top stories from Times Online] Reference

No Yankee has ever been more "workmanlike" despite his lofty wages as Jeter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference

When Alistair Darling said this Budget would be 'workmanlike', he was not kidding.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to UK government says economic recovery in infancy] Reference

There seems to be so much fiction that is "workmanlike," that is "fascinating," that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism] Reference

I heard the speech last night described as "workmanlike," which is poli-speak for uninspired.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dane101] Reference

Also, the transfer is "workmanlike" though "the clips from Wilder's films actually look pretty slick.".    From Wordnik.com.  [GreenCine Daily] Reference

Mr Heffernan said the market was performing in a "workmanlike" manner given all the turbulence around the place.    From Wordnik.com.  [WA Business News - Latest News] Reference

Childress used the word "workmanlike" to describe a meager 110-yard passing performance before adding the following.    From Wordnik.com.  [FOXSports.com News] Reference

I've heard McCain's speech described as "workmanlike" several times already, and I suspect that will be the consensus assessment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest entries from rgcombs.blog-city.com] Reference

As for the speech itself, I agree with Karl Rove, who thought it "workmanlike" and deserving of being called McCain's best effort.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pajamas Media] Reference

Will the chancellor be able to resist putting in a few positive steps, or will he be true to his word and deliver a 'workmanlike' package?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Latest From www.politics.co.uk] Reference

"It has a most workmanlike look," he said in a faint voice.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Mating in the Wilds] Reference

Now her fans want something more than a workmanlike triumph.    From Wordnik.com.  [Festival Of Youth] Reference

And Kennedy's interview with a fading George Wallace is workmanlike.    From Wordnik.com.  [Houses Of The Rising Sons] Reference

A more workmanlike body of fellows it would be hard to find anywhere.    From Wordnik.com.  [Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front] Reference

The mixed mortar is then applied with a trowel in a workmanlike manner.    From Wordnik.com.  [Concrete Construction Methods and Costs] Reference

Why man, he can pick a pocket in as workmanlike a manner as either of us.    From Wordnik.com.  [City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston] Reference

The big, electric motor spun into action and settled into a workmanlike hum.    From Wordnik.com.  [Make Mine Homogenized] Reference

Not through this workmanlike, solidly constructed wall had an opening been made.    From Wordnik.com.  [Murder at Bridge] Reference

Their workmanlike prose and shapeless piling up of anecdotes don't help the narrative.    From Wordnik.com.  [Knocking Down The Kings Of Beer] Reference

The men attacked him with blubber-saws and axes and began to cut him up in a most workmanlike manner.    From Wordnik.com.  [On a Torn-Away World Or, the Captives of the Great Earthquake] Reference

If the prose sometimes seems a bit workmanlike, there's plenty of juicy detail to keep the narrative moving.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inside The Head Of The Hacker] Reference

One administration official familiar with his record describes his judicial opinions as "workmanlike but not incisive.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Waiting For A Date With The Supremes] Reference

But for its quietness and its controlled, workmanlike effect, the whole scene had distinctly a dramatic touch about it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir] Reference

His own accounts of Egypt's ancient sites or tense backwaters of the Islamist insurgency are workmanlike but perfunctory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Longest River, Wide Adventure] Reference

Some good farm buildings have been erected by the students and they have painted other large buildings in a very workmanlike manner.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Choctaw Freedmen and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy] Reference