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How to use workmanlike in a sentence

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In painting he is a master of nuance, but as a penman he tends to the workmanlike.
His workmanlike versatility and steady output have earned him a reputation as an artistic chameleon.
Included in the deal was the four-wheel-drive Musso, a workmanlike offroader which had never really achieved anything.
He does a good, workmanlike job with this, keeping the plot moving along briskly.
For two years the Mongols moved from fortress to fortress with workmanlike efficiency.
Although he was happy with the team's workmanlike performance, he reckoned there were enough chances to win this contest.
However, he seemed happy to look over my plans and that, coupled with workmanlike builder's hands and nice Italian shoes, made my heart skip.
That liability is not qualified by any term that work be done with reasonable skill and care or in a competent or workmanlike manner.
His workmanlike approach doesn't lend itself to much praise, but what he's doing this season is remarkable.
It was a workmanlike second half from Carlow, but the margin reflected the gap between the divisions.
As he tells it, Kwan approached his criminal life with workmanlike discipline.
Yoder's style, illustrated in this Anniston Star piece, appears to be workmanlike but not unusual.
In his absence, his new club, under their new coach, made a workmanlike start to the Premiership campaign, but won few plaudits for style.
They are a compact, workmanlike side and have two attackers blessed with skill and tremendous pace.
Dressed simply in brown unitards, they brought a workmanlike tenacity to their precarious endeavors.
Dukinfield are workmanlike rather than spectacular and from the kick-off they displayed their intention of frustrating the home side.
Displaying the same alacrity from the gates as he had when winning a Doncaster minor event, the Mujadil colt was guided by the stands' rails to a workmanlike success.
Remember the first Walkman, introduced in 1979, with its tubby buttons and workmanlike profile.
Romney, by contrast, gave a smooth but workmanlike speech that barely contained a personal touch.
They find that for all his inspiring speeches, the president's performance has at best been workmanlike.
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Examples from Classical Literature
But whoever had gone about the wrecking of the lab had gone about it in a workmanlike way.
In the matter of hats a straw sailor with a widish brim is the most workmanlike form of head gear possible.
He cut down twenty trees in all and adzed them smooth, squaring them by rule in good workmanlike fashion.
Daniel had an old workmanlike habit of carrying his pocket-handkerchief in his hat.
The peak of her lugsail is cut very high, and her mast, yard, and boom are very light and workmanlike.
As for his actual compositions, he had only the ambition to make them as workmanlike as he could.
To disguise it by sewing through the cord is not a workmanlike practice.
The work must be executed in a thorough and workmanlike manner.
I saw his tiny fat arm rise and fall in a workmanlike manner.
He had a job to do, and he went at it in a workmanlike manner.
Why man, he can pick a pocket in as workmanlike a manner as either of us.
The mixed mortar is then applied with a trowel in a workmanlike manner.
To stress that Hogarth was not vain about his promotion, he has discarded his wig and half-covered his shaven pate with a pushed-back workmanlike mobcap.
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