In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
UNSKILLED
incompetent, unskilled
(adjective) not doing a good job; “incompetent at chess”
amateurish, amateur, inexpert, unskilled
(adjective) lacking professional skill or expertise; “a very amateurish job”; “inexpert but conscientious efforts”; “an unskilled painting”
unskilled
(adjective) not having or showing or requiring special skill or proficiency; “unskilled in the art of rhetoric”; “an enthusiastic but unskillful mountain climber”; “unskilled labor”; “workers in unskilled occupations are finding fewer and fewer job opportunities”; “unskilled workmanship”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
unskilled (comparative more unskilled, superlative most unskilled)
Of a person or workforce: not having a skill or technical training.
Of a job: not requiring skill or training.
Of a made object: inexpertly made or showing a lack of skill.
Source: Wiktionary
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ENDLESSLY
(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”
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