Consummate
Consummate adjective - Having or showing exceptional knowledge, experience, or skill in a field of endeavor.
Usage example: consummate cabinetmakers, they produced desks and chests of drawers that are now regarded as masterpieces of American furniture
Unable is an antonym for consummate.
Unable
Unable adjective - Lacking qualities (as knowledge, skill, or ability) required to do a job.
Usage example: a celebrated author of serious plays, he turned out to be a particularly unable writer of comedies
Consummate is an antonym for unable.
Both words in one sentence
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Henry VIII claims he cannot tell her from his horse (which speaks either very poorly of his eyesight or very well of his horse) and is unable to consummate his marriage to her because she is so ugly.
Source: Hollywood Homely -
Consummate Liar: Although she is extremely clever and smooth for her age when deceiving adults, and can come up with a convincing lie so swiftly that even Hillary is impressed, Sara-Kate is still just a child and is unable to deflect outside attention from her strange family situation forever.
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