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unpracticed

[uhn-prak-tist]

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adjective

not trained or skilled; inexpert: an unpracticed actor.

not practiced; not usually or generally used or done; not put into effect.

Also, especially British, un·prac·tised.

Origin:
1530–40; un-¹ + practiced

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unpractised or (US) unpracticed (ʌnˈpræktɪst)

—*adj*
1.	without skill, training, or experience
2.	not used or done often or repeatedly
3.	not yet tested

unpracticed or (US) unpracticed

—*adj*

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unpracticed

1551, from un- (1) "not" + pp. of practice (v.).

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"We are often struck by the force and precision of style to which hard-working men, unpracticed in writing, easily attain when required to make the effort. As if plainness and vigor and sincerity, the ornaments of style, were better learned on the farm and in the workshop than in the schools. The sentences written by such rude hands are nervous and tough, like hardened thongs, the sinews of the deer, or the roots of the pine."

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