unpractised

British  

/ ʌnˈpræktɪst /

adjective

1. without skill, training, or experience

2. not used or done often or repeatedly

3. not yet tested

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Example Sentences

The unpractised vision of the visitor is hardly able to follow the celerity of motion of the workman's hands and fingers.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume II (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Scherzer, Karl Ritter von

And Gretchen met her with ready sympathy,--she was in advance of her, indeed, and could point out to her many beauties that else might have escaped her unpractised eyes.

From Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. by Hillern, Wilhelmine von

The heavy head and the light shaft make the ulutoa an attractive missile, but the unpractised European finds the knack of throwing straight very difficult to acquire.

From The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom by Thomson, Basil

Thus happy they dwelt in a rural domain, Uninstructed in commerce, unpractised in gain, 'Till, taught by the loadstone to traverse the seas, Columbus came over, that bold Genoese.

From The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume II (of III) by Freneau, Philip

The stage, here an emblem of the ideal life as it gleams before unpractised eyes, offers, he fancies, opportunity for a life of thought as distinguished from one of routine.

From Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. by Fuller, Margaret