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unskillfulness

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inadvertence, incompetence, unskillfulness, or a failure to take precautions but rather rises to the level of a 'conscious choice of a course of action .
When he was mocked for bowing rather than shaking hands at his Tuesday afternoon levees, for instance, he protested that his "stiffness" at these receptions should be ascribed to the effects of age, or to the unskillfulness of my teacher, [rather] than to pride and dignity of office, which God knows has no charms for me.
 
 
 
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