What's the difference between workmanlike and workmanly?
Workmanlike
Definition:
(a.) Becoming a workman, especially a skillful one; skillful; well performed.
Example Sentences:
(1) And, even if the phrase "independence generation" is one that Salmond has used before, in his peroration (see 3.48pm) Salmond finally achieved a gear-change from workmanlike to inspiring.
(2) The authors also found that individuals who are radicalised by a sense of grievance “can be steady, planful and workmanlike – as indeed many lone-wolf attackers seem to have been”.
(3) "Who would they rather face in the final; a struggling, workmanlike team with a new manager, with little or no flair and who struggle to score goals, or Sunderland?"
(4) In retail folklore, middle-class southerners carry the orange rosette that is a Sainsbury’s bag for life, while a bootful of heavy duty Tesco carriers points to a more workmanlike existence.
(5) What we need in these news cellphone cases is for those five justices to join together and show that constitutional vision is more than just the workmanlike competence of lawyers.
(6) There were other signs of rising stress at the halfway point, when the workmanlike calm of the first three days gave way to heated exchanges during a stock-taking session.
(7) The fluid, creative and attacking 82 team – which also included Falcão, Cerezo, Júnior and Sócrates ("a brilliant man who was tragically unable to apply his intelligence to dealing with his own problems", according to Zico) – won plaudits for their style of play, but came in the midst of a 24-year World Cup trophy drought for Brazil that only ended when the national side – long since minus Zico – adopted a lower-risk and more workmanlike approach in the US in 1994.
(8) You may never have seen Breakfast at Tiffany's, an entertaining movie directed by the workmanlike Blake Edwards.
(9) Here he designed his brilliantly workmanlike typefaces for Monotype, typically throwing his reservations about machine production to the winds.
(10) Moments of skill from Totti livened a workmanlike performance.
(11) To be truly "sensible and workmanlike", the budget needs to contain five elements.
(12) It will be thrilled to get a majority in the Welsh assembly (though there, as in Scotland, Labour politics is depressingly workmanlike).
(13) MacTiernan said she believed McGowan – who had a “workmanlike” style – would win the election but had “absolutely no chance” if the party was not united.
(14) This has been his special skill in the second half of a picaresque 23-job managerial career after an early ascent built on sturdy, workmanlike success.
(15) Whether the calmer and more workmanlike mood translates into substantive progress or weak ambition will be clearer at the end of the week.
(16) But what followed from there is more instructive: a disastrous Asian Cup campaign, the neurosis and McCarthy-like paranoia of the Graham Arnold years, and a string of workmanlike qualification performances leading up to the first day disaster of the 2010 defeat to Germany.
(17) With his workmanlike attitude, and his pleasure in a job well done, you sometimes wonder how he didn't end up as a builder or engineer.
(18) My guess is that we'll see a more workmanlike performance from Team USA, who may already be looking ahead to Monday's game against Argentina.
(19) He thinks voters would be more impressed by a budget that he promises will be "sensible and workmanlike".
(20) It feels to me that Del Posto holds its two stars more for the glossy, dark wood, country-club-meets-ocean-liner surroundings than for the workmanlike food.
Workmanly
Definition:
(a.) Becoming a skillful workman; skillful; well performed; workmanlike.
(adv.) In a skillful manner; in a manner becoming a skillful workman.
Example Sentences:
(1) Alice Workman (@workmanalice) What's your favourite type of lettuce?
(2) Workman's facing Avila, gets him in a 1-2 count and then strikes him out to end the inning.
(3) Updated at 3.59am GMT 3.52am GMT DCL (@DCL9) " @NotCoachTito :"Brandon Doin' Work, Man" @LengelDavid "Tag this thing & bag it now.Let's get this one to make sure there's a game 6 in #Boston October 27, 2013 Not Terry Francona (@NotCoachTito) Brandon Workman is coming to the plate batting for himself.
(4) Workman got exactly one out in the ninth inning before Farrell pulled him, so he effectively handed the Cardinals an out.
(5) The complexities and interferences in the doctor-patient relationship during the treatment of the compensably-injured workman create an unusually high incidence of delayed recovery, complications, and permanent disability.
(6) 3.45am BST Cardinals 4 - Red Sox 2, top of the 8th Brandon Workman, who does not come out to Rush's "Working Man" sadly, start the eighth.
(7) Of the 87 patients not receiving workman's compensation, 70 patients (80.5%) had marked improvement; four (4.6%) had slight improvement; and 13 (14.9%) had no improvement.
(8) And they took him by each arm and by each leg and laid him down on the table and the fifth one strapped him in.” Neither Workman nor Boone could remember the name of the man who resisted.
(9) "Employment growth is just not enough to cover the number of new entrants into the workforce," Workman said.
(10) Advisory board members Uwe Albrecht Managing partner, Siemens Venture Capital GmbH Peter Baines General partner, Advent Venture Partners Clennel Collingwood Investment manager, TTP Ventures Luciano Diana Head of Cleantech Energy Equity Research, Morgan Stanley Ben Goldsmith Partner, WHEB Ventures Alex Hook Investment manager, NESTA Bakhrom Ibragimov Principal, Virgin Green Fund Alok Jha Journalist, The Guardian Hamish Sandison Partner, Field Fisher Waterhouse LLP Patrick Sheehan Partner, Environmental Technologies Fund Felix von Schubert Partner, Zouk Ventures Adam Workman Investment partner, CT Investment Stephan Decher Founding partner, Clean Capital Jürgen Habichler Managing director, Mountain Cleantech Andrew Humphrey Clean energy analyst, Morgan Stanley Stuart McKnight Managing director, Ascendant Maurizio PetitBon General partner, Kreos Andreas von Richter GE Energy Financial Services Capital · Richard White is Senior Analyst at Library House
(11) During his employment with the corrections department, Workman said he never directly pushed the button during a lethal injection.
(12) Most notably, he left reliever Brandon Workman in the game to hit for himself, he struck out on three pitches in his first at-bat at any professional level, so he could come back to pitch the ninth of what was by then a 4-4 tie.
(13) Randy Workman saw intimate details of the death penalty that are kept from the public eye in the United States.
(14) That brings out Sox manager John Farrell to get his man, Workman is done for the night and starter Felix Doubront will make a relief appearance and face Prince Fielder.
(15) Workman thought Alverson had matured during more than a decade in prison: his time was productive, and he spoke to children to try to sway them from a life of crime, Workman said.
(16) Commonwealth Bank senior economist Michael Workman put the lower unemployment rate down to the fall in the participation rate.
(17) Speedy Ortiz play Shipping Forecast, Liverpool, 19 May; The Workman's Club, Dublin, 20 May; Exchange, Bristol, 21 May; Electrowerkz, EC1, 22 May
(18) 3.55am BST Tigers 2 - Red Sox 1, top of the 7th Workman gets Infante to fly out for the first out of the 7th, Farrell gets Breslow and Tazawa working.
(19) The authors present the clinical course of a 48 year old workman who developed a progressively extending pain, after having wounded his left second finger with a metallic rod at work.
(20) Commonwealth Bank of Australia senior economist Michael Workman said soft investment outside the mining sector had probably been a key factor in the RBA’s decision.