workmanlike

How To Use workmanlike In A Sentence

• It was a workmanlike performance. Times, Sunday Times
• The band's workmanlike performance frequently looked like bored autopilot, while each number sounded more generic than the last. Times, Sunday Times
• Completed, the bandage looked not too unworkmanlike, and was cool and comforting to the hot throb of the wound. Success A Novel
• However unworkmanlike the deed, it had been mercifully done. Jude the Obscure
• As to the kitchen and dining-room, I leave to your vivid imagination to picture their primitiveness, merely observing that nothing was ever more awkward and unworkmanlike than the whole tenement. The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52
• No man ever came back to him and said, ‘Sir, you broke my neck in an unworkmanlike manner.’
• Really it's a workmanlike conference rather than a dramatic one.
• They are a compact, workmanlike side and have two attackers blessed with skill and tremendous pace.
• In this case, the court held that the unworkmanlike application of waterproof membranes constituted an ‘event’ on each occasion that it occurred.
• It was a workmanlike effort for a man who had just had one week's holiday. Times, Sunday Times