callow
adjective
immature or inexperienced.
callowness
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a word derived from
callow.
Example Sentences
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Takatsuki struggles to suppress his youthful callowness and self-destructive temper, and in Okada’s sensitive performance, we see an alarming vision of another encroaching tragedy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 29, 2021
It’s one of the pleasures of reading him, that for all the callowness, or cruelty, of his characters, he never extends his judgments onto us.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 21, 2016
Both these characters, force-marched into maturity by the reckless adults in their lives, were pitiable, but Eisenberg made room to explore their callowness and unpleasantness, too.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 25, 2016
Ashley Laracey is another distinctive young sylph, while the strong Brittany Pollack has begun to shed the seeming callowness of youth.
From New York Times ● Mar. 3, 2014
Aside from callowness, what is this man’s problem?
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
