callowness
- a word derived from callow.
Example Sentences
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He was supposed to be the “grown-up in the room,” a counterweight to W.’s callowness.
From New York Times ● Oct. 23, 2021
Chalamet, always good at suggesting both youthful callowness and limitless potential, proves an inspired choice for the role of a young man who is both a coddled heir and an intriguingly unknown quantity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2021
The two youngest squads in the Premier League go head to head and last weekend it was Newcastle, second only to Liverpool in the callowness stakes, whose inexperience told.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 2, 2018
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
Aside from callowness, what is this man’s problem?
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
