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  • adverb In an inexpert manner.

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  • adverb in a crude and unskilled manner

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Examples

  • Once you've done a few they're not so bad, but the instructions on the package read like something translated inexpertly from the Chinese.

    Start Here. - A Dress A Day 2008

  • I well remember the post-war fashion for canasta, which my older brothers played with great enthusiasm, if inexpertly.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » To Meld — What Does “Meld” Mean? 2010

  • Heartbreak of the modern Washingtonian in winter: While walking down the street in the bitter cold, do you text inexpertly with your gloves on or do you take your gloves off, risking frostbite just so you can be communicating for every single minute?

    'Guns Into Plowshares' sculpture installed in new - and not really visible - place John Kelly 2011

  • Your face seems familiar with my story, like one who knows going off half cocked means it gets harder to re-trace steps ... and so much worse for sand grit and the sound a bad wind makes, like pigs slaughtered inexpertly under the eaves, runny nose shocked straight follicle, but lucky

    Agoraphobic Confronts The Security In Galleria Dennis Mahagin 2011

  • How is this helping anybody? the Duchess was repeatedly heard to ask as she inexpertly struggled for rhymes, robotically egged on by a glassy-eyed Tess Daly, who was later to take her own life.

    Look away, Simon Cowell and John Humphrys. 2012 won't be your year | David Mitchell 2012

  • Marcus paused to scrub at his clean-shaven face, then tousle hair inexpertly trimmed with his own shears.

    G'lder Curtis Hox 2011

  • Heartbreak of the modern Washingtonian in winter: While walking down the street in the bitter cold, do you text inexpertly with your gloves on or do you take your gloves off, risking frostbite just so you can be communicating for every single minute?

    'Guns Into Plowshares' sculpture installed in new - and not really visible - place John Kelly 2011

  • The rest are identical tour buses, taxis, hire cars, and shiny new Land Cruisers piloted inexpertly through the always flat streets of the desert city by clean-faced men in safari suits and Akubra hats.

    Kangaroo Dreaming Steve Himmer 2011

  •  Billy yearned to put a raging Tyrannosaurus Rex on the hood of his green machine, but the practical difficulties of shining the great beast's likeness onto the Impala's hood proved too much for him, though he often whiled away his senior year classes with inexpertly imagined schemes involving ropes and pulleys that could somehow make his dream a reality.

    Another Metamorphosis: A Moral Tale about Obsession 2010

  • Or one more desperate middle-aged woman, Michael thinks, inexpertly dislodging French toast from the frying pan.

    Lover of Beautiful but Unstable Women 2010

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