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- adverb In an
unskilled manner.
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Examples
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While Pollack realized that he handled the situation unskillfully, challenging teachers is one of the most important aspects of this discipline, something rarely offered in the endless and relentless literature available concerning yoga teachers.
Derek Beres: The Unlikely Making of a Yoga Dude Derek Beres 2010
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Another level of stupidity here is that she has tried to paint a lifelike *portrait* albeit unskillfully and not a *caricature* at all.
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Remember how much we are alike, and that we all act unskillfully at times.
The Chemistry of Calm M.D. Henry Emmons 2010
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In the Bible, "sin" actually renders Hebrew and Greek words which literally mean "missing the mark," i.e., behaving inadequately or unskillfully.
Buddhism and Sex by M. O'C. Walshe William Harryman 2009
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In the Bible, "sin" actually renders Hebrew and Greek words which literally mean "missing the mark," i.e., behaving inadequately or unskillfully.
Archive 2009-07-19 William Harryman 2009
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The Raw in Snyder's analogy is that if you play the piano unskillfully, you neither kill nor wound anyone.
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The world cannot afford for us to move too slowly nor to move unskillfully.
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It has, in many cases, wielded its power unskillfully and to the detriment of powerless people all over the world.
More about the Trinity United Church of Christ | Barack Obama | positively Barack 2008
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I've repeatedly witnessed people respond unskillfully to stressful situations at work, in their home life, and even in the political arena all because of a fundamental misperception of what suffering really means, which is understandable because suffering has gotten a bad reputation in Western society.
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The world cannot afford for us to move too slowly nor to move unskillfully.
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