undeft

Grega was there in that same barren room of the mill-house, doing things in a stolid, undeft sort of way.

The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915

This second forgery of love being finished, he went about the house on tiptoe, found brown paper and twine, put the hood back into the box with his half-sheet peeping from between the frills where the little face would go, and made it up, with his undeft fingers, into an ungainly parcel, which he addressed to himself as before.

The Manxman A Novel - 1895 Hall Caine 1892