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Recent Examples of unskilled No army in history seemed ever to have been more ragged and motley and mongrel and polyglot than the Continental, rich and poor, learned and illiterate, from boys to old men, skilled and unskilled, born all over the world, speaking dozens of languages, believing in different gods and in no god. Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2025 The network also reported female health workers saying that their newer colleagues were likely to be unskilled women who came from Taliban-loyal families. NPR, 14 Oct. 2025 Unfortunately, the rest of the roster is too big and unskilled, a downstream consequence of buying into the fiction that Davis is a power forward. John Hollinger, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025 Lane change issues, road debris or an unskilled driver are all quickly visible in the rear-view mirror with a tap on the accelerator. James Raia, Mercury News, 21 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for unskilled
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unskilled
Adjective
  • Older, more experienced players — like Indiana’s fleet of 24-year olds — are usually better than younger, inexperienced ones, especially in this age of the transfer portal.
    Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Tech Hamiltonians and Silicon Valley enthusiasts are often inexperienced in the ways of government and unaccustomed to the compromise and diplomacy that successful policy implementation often requires.
    Walter Russell Mead, The Atlantic, 24 Jan. 2026
Adjective
  • Oil from free America bailed out the virtue-signaling, totally incompetent Democrats here.
    Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 1 Feb. 2026
  • That means the former voters died, moved away, registered in another state, were convicted of a felony crime, deemed incompetent to vote by a judge or were removed from the state's voter rolls because of inactivity.
    Molly Beck, jsonline.com, 30 Jan. 2026
Adjective
  • In Short’s case, the flattening is particularly egregious, because the inchoate facts of her life are shoehorned into the obsessions of amateur sleuths who continue to get those facts wrong.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Buskey, who previously competed as an amateur mixed martial arts fighter in local Cage Wars events according to the Times Union, has remained in custody since his arrest in April 2024.
    Christina Coulter, PEOPLE, 27 Jan. 2026
Adjective
  • Apparently, the Meyers in Long Beach were ruled unfit as guardians, or Lynn refused to go back to them, so juvenile authorities located some blood relatives, possibly her father or half sister, and put her on a train back East.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 27 Jan. 2026
  • This is a couple unfit to govern a two-bedroom.
    Patricia Marx, New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2026
Adjective
  • Mix Materials The beauty in the unfitted kitchen aesthetic is found in its collected look.
    Patricia Shannon, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 May 2025
  • The venerable American clan at the center of the narrator’s reminiscences are wholly unfitted to the modern world and no longer endowed with the fortune that one of them brought home long ago on clipper ships.
    Daniel Akst, WSJ, 2 Sep. 2022
Adjective
  • Defense disputes the case McGuire’s attorney, Joseph Tacopina, argued that the petite nurse was physically incapable of killing her 6-foot-3-inch, 210-pound husband, let alone dismembering his body.
    Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 1 Feb. 2026
  • The toddler danced around, incapable of containing his energy.
    Maeva Bambuck, CNN Money, 1 Feb. 2026

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“Unskilled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unskilled. Accessed 3 Feb. 2026.

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