craftless
adjEtymology From craft + -less.
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Without craft; boatless, etc.
- Now one had come to see these craftless rivers, empty stations and poverty instead of wealth.1926, Alec Tweedie, An Adventurous Journey (Russia-Siberia-China):
craftless
adjEtymology From Middle English craftles, creftleas, from Old English cræftlēas (“artless, unskilful, innocent, simple, inexpert”), from Proto-West Germanic *kraftulaus, equivalent to craft + -less. Cognate with West Frisian krêftleas (“powerless”), Dutch krachteloos (“powerless”), German kraftlos (“powerless”).
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Without craft; unskilled.
- Ostensibly the reasons given were that craftless people could not readily find jobs […]1980, Hyman Bogomolny Grinstein, A Short History of the Jews in the United States:
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- craftlessness