(a.) Not skillful; inexperienced; awkward; bungling; as, an unskillful surgeon or mechanic; an unskillful logician.
(a.) Lacking discernment; injudicious; ignorant.
Example Sentences:
(1) The discrimination in the policy of successive South African governments towards African workers is demonstrated by the so-called 'civilised labour policy' under which sheltered, unskilled government jobs are found for those white workers who cannot make the grade in industry, at wages which far exceed the earnings of the average African employee in industry.
(2) Among the fork-lift truck drivers, a statistically significant higher occurrence of low-back trouble was reported for the year preceding the study, in comparison, according to age, to that of a reference group of 399 working men (65 against 47%); however, there was no significantly increased frequency when compared to that of a reference group of 66 unskilled male workers (65 against 51%).
(3) Skilled manual laborers, businessmen, and traders were more likely to be infected with HIV-2 than farmers, unskilled laborers, and while collar men (p.05).
(4) When the enrollee's socioeconomic characteristics (education, income, and occupation) were studied, it was found that, although enrollees showed good representation for most categories they tended to underrepresent the under 65 area population in the lowest income and education classes, as well as in the semiskilled or unskilled occupations.
(5) But the disarray within the Conservative party over immigration was highlighted again on Sunday when the environment secretary, Liz Truss, admitted that Britain needed EU migrants to fill unskilled jobs in the agricultural sector.
(6) A retrospective case-control study, confirming a significantly higher frequency of MND in farmers and persons living in rural areas, revealed that the disease was more common in the lower social classes to which most unskilled and heavy laborers belong.
(7) Most of the people who carried out these 'operations' by instrumentation were usually unskilled personnel.
(8) Liberalization of abortion laws occurred to reduce or eliminate the disastrous effects of criminal abortions performed by unskilled people under clandestine and unsafe conditions.
(9) Unskilled workers could not be included into the study.
(10) While the average gap between the earnings of men and women has narrowed in the last 50 years, differences between professional and unskilled women are significantly higher than those between the same groups of men, a report by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) has found.
(11) More (30%) said that one-year visas for unskilled workers would do damage.
(12) Patients in occupations where they were exposed to infection were affected (teachers and students, 22% of sample; hospital workers, 7%), but many patients were unskilled (8%) and skilled workers (9%).
(13) There was a marginal increase in very low birth weight infants (less than 1500 g) among women whose partners were unemployed or in unskilled work but extremely low birth weight infants (less than 1000 g) were evenly distributed across the whole social spectrum.
(14) Residents generally considered themselves unskilled to manage adolescents in the areas of sexuality, handicapping conditions, and psychosocial problems.
(15) The unskilled working class and 25- to 34-year-olds join the 18- to 24-year-olds, students and black and minority ethnic voters as the key groups in which Corbyn can expect to find strong support.
(16) Unskilled workers were more frequently involved in nearly all alcohol-related crimes.
(17) It is also 10 years now since Britain officially closed the door to unskilled migrants from outside the EU.
(18) Cervicobrachial syndrome was found in 31.6% of unskilled workers and 12.3% of the controls (P < 0.05).
(19) Between 1997 and 2010, for every voter Labour lost from the professional classes it lost three unskilled or unemployed workers, even after taking into account the declining share of the population that pollsters classify as working-class.
(20) The method can be used efficiently by relatively unskilled operators to obtain highly reproducible results.
Useless
Definition:
(a.) Having, or being of, no use; unserviceable; producing no good end; answering no valuable purpose; not advancing the end proposed; unprofitable; ineffectual; as, a useless garment; useless pity.
Example Sentences:
(1) Theoretical findings on sterilization and disinfection measures are useless for the dental practice if their efficiency is put into question due to insufficient consideration of the special conditions of dental treatment.
(2) It’s useless if we try and fight with them through force, so we try and fight with them through humour.” “There is a saying that laughing is the best form of medicine.
(3) It also seems to be a bit useless as a way of gathering intelligence.
(4) It is concluded that the femoral stem should be as thick as possible and that the collar of the prosthesis is useless.
(5) The clorus water disinfecting conventional methods by many reasons are useless, even in urbanized cities.
(6) By now seemingly every print and online outlet has had a crack at explaining why the Sunday shows are so phenomenally useless.
(7) He added: "Why on earth is this useless Goverment pandering to Puffs?
(8) It’s great that the new Star Wars film is more diverse , with John Boyega and Daisy Ridley in significant roles; I am pleased to see everyone on #BoycottStarWarsVII gnash and whine uselessly.
(9) Inappropriate, useless and potentially harmful surgical diagnostic procedures are also avoided.
(10) However, under normal working conditions, taking into account the period of time which inevitably elapses between the patient feeling pain in the kidney and his reaching the Emergency Department and the necessary examinations being carried out which enable the correct diagnosis to be made, the number of hours which have passed make attempts at conservative surgery completely useless.
(11) However one should not ask for the impossible of the treatment of male infertility since the most optimal seminal analysis result is useless in the presence of a monophysic menstrual cycle in the partner.
(12) The endoscopic retrograde cholangiography is of greatest practical significance for the differential diagnosis of the cholestatic icterus: non-obstructed bile ducts exclude an extrahepatic icterus and render a laparotomy useless.
(13) If you have a regulator behaving this uselessly, I suspect MPs will start saying this is not regulation," he said.
(14) The importance of a diagnosis before surgery by cytopunction and drill-biopsy has to be emphasized, to prevent an useless mastectomy.
(15) In conclusion, excepted for pituitary deficiency, basal plasma TSH (IRMA) levels are accurate and sufficient in the evaluation of the thyroid function and make the TRH-test useless.
(16) (4) The annual vaccination campaigns since 1970 against FMD were useless because most of the primary outbreaks of FMD since then can be traced to the production or the application of vaccines.
(17) A hepatic lesion regarded as useless for the ultimate diagnosis was present in 16 cases (14.5 per cent).
(18) Talking this week to several, I heard the same story of exorbitant fees and shocking interest rates throttling real production, while Adair Turner's "socially useless" financial products attract limitless bubble credit.
(19) Clinical evaluation and laboratory tests are useless.
(20) The Chinese government is depicted as benevolent, while the US government manages to be both sinister and useless – typified by the black-clad CIA operatives, one of whom gets beaten up by a Chinese character.