An unworkmanlike result. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : a workmanlike piece of writing. From Dictionary.com.
This method is extremely costly and unworkmanlike. From Wordnik.com. [Elements of Plumbing] Reference
An oval or round patch is unworkmanlike and does not wear well. From Wordnik.com. [Textiles and Clothing] Reference
In other designs the means of access to the rear ends of the tubes are of a makeshift and unworkmanlike character. From Wordnik.com. [Steam, Its Generation and Use] Reference
As to the kitchen and dining-room, I leave to your vivid imagination to picture their primitiveness, merely observing that nothing was ever more awkward and unworkmanlike than the whole tenement. From Wordnik.com. [The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52] Reference
Confronted therefore with the opportunity, or the need, for a change of habit, in the course of a migration for example, they must either refuse it, like a shy horse, or (if they accept it) enter on their new career imperfectly trained, and extemporizing adjustments here and there in very unworkmanlike fashion. From Wordnik.com. [The Unity of Civilization] Reference
But Sir Joshua's sketched leaves would indeed imply some unworkmanlike haste. From Wordnik.com. [Val d'Arno] Reference
No man ever came back to Marwood and said, "Sir, you broke my neck in an unworkmanlike manner.". From Wordnik.com. [Remarks] Reference
Completed, the bandage looked not too unworkmanlike, and was cool and comforting to the hot throb of the wound. From Wordnik.com. [Success A Novel] Reference
They often do not appear until long after the decisions which they chronicle have been made and their general make-up is sometimes unworkmanlike and unscientific. From Wordnik.com. [The American Judiciary] Reference
It would seem as though they were disgusted with such unworkmanlike proceedings, and that they cannot rest until they have taken it into hand, and endeavored to "make a job of it.". From Wordnik.com. [Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee A Bee Keeper's Manual] Reference
It is, in fact, a "circulating library" novel before -- at any rate at an early period of -- circulating libraries: not unworkmanlike, probably not very unsatisfactory to its actual readers, and something of a document as to the kind of satisfaction they demanded; but not intrinsically important. From Wordnik.com. [A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800] Reference
Sometimes, when I am holding on with all the necessary tenacity of grip, as regards my hands, but, "scrambling my toes about" in a very disorderly and unworkmanlike fashion, he pops his head up from below for me to sit on; and puts my feet into crevices for me, with many apologies for taking the liberty!. From Wordnik.com. [Rambles Beyond Railways; or, Notes in Cornwall taken A-foot] Reference
Jasper's unworkmanlike negligence. From Wordnik.com. [The Puzzle of Dickens's Last Plot] Reference
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