Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Wanting skill.
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Examples
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I. i.12 (8,3) And skill-less as unpractis'd infancy] Mr. Dryden, in his alteration of this play, has taken this speech as it stands, except that he has changed _skill-less_ to _artless_, not for the better, because
Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies Samuel Johnson 1746
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After all, whilst some people find conceptual art very refreshing and the only kind of art that is relevant to today's world, many others consider it shocking, distasteful, skill-less, downright bad, or, and most importantly, not art at all.
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In other words, the game was changed to a decision-less skill-less game.
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In other words, the game was changed to a decision-less skill-less game.
Archive 2009-05-01 2009
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Maybe that's because, in addition to the ethics of raising day old chicks to be pulverized by children and skill-less hunters, there's the math.
Is your state breeding birds for Dick Cheney style hunting like Illinois? 2007
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His defense and intensity on that end is so overwhelming that people tend to think that he's skill-less on the offensive end.
USATODAY.com 2004
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Devices that, if actually used and employed, may bring greater success to reducing the number of skill-less hunters from the ranks than any ranting about the decline in hunting skills.
grouse Diary Entry grouse 2005
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A heavenly dame, not skill-less of these things, 80
Purgatory. Canto IX 1909
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Man and fiend had alike failed a mind, not ignoble, not skill-less, not abjectly craven; alike failed a heart not feeble and selfish, not dead to the hero's devotion, willing to shed every drop of its blood for a something more dear than an animal's life for itself!
The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Old Time English Julian Hawthorne 1890
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Instantly, this "homeless, jobless, skill-less" girl gets suitors, breaks, friends in high places her champion is a gay man called Peter Champion and a lifestyle that stretches her wallet and our credulity.
The Washington Post: National, World & D.C. Area News and Headlines - The Washington Post Nandini Lal 2011
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