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1. Awkwardness, inexpertness.
1706. Stevens, I. Inhabilidad, Inhability, Unhandiness, Incapacity.
1862. Miss Yonge, C’tess Kate, iii. Whether it were from the difference of height, or from Kate’s innate unhandiness.
1889. The Voice (N. Y.), 19 Sept. From whom communications would be accepted, if only some one would help their unhandiness with the pen.
2. Unmanageableness.
1883. Harper’s Mag., Aug., 449/1. The sloop-rig … is so dangerous as to demand large crews to control its unhandiness.
1897. Mary Kingsley, W. Africa, 609. It was highly dangerous,… because of the violent storms … and the unhandiness of the native craft.
