Modifies a noun

• manner: The judge could not find evidence that the builder had not carried out his work in a workmanlike manner.

• effort: The only difference between the teams was the visitors' desire to win, and to their credit their hassling and workmanlike efforts bore fruit.

• performance: A workmanlike performance by the forward who fronted up.

• job: John Hinshelwood has made a workmanlike job of describing the building while researching the dairy company that built it.

• side: Bristol are the surprise leaders of the Premiership but they are tenacious and probably the most workmanlike side we have faced so far.

• fashion: Payne begins, in workmanlike fashion, by recounting the etymological history of the title.

Modifying Another Word

• fairly: It has been left a largely lovely building, attractive in an otherwise fairly workmanlike village.