inexpert
adjective
not expert; unskilled.
inexpertness
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a word derived from
inexpert.
Example Sentences
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Balletmistress Galli, a girl with old-fashioned ideas, filled the proscenium with rose-garlanded damsels whose inexpertness became proverbial.
From Time Magazine Archive
Yet this harsh inexpertness about life was the essence that made these people delightful to him.
From The Judge by Rebecca West
And so again, when it comes to charging and retiring, the onward-dashing gallop, the well-skilled, timely retreat, expert knowledge of the ground and scenery will assert superiority over inexpertness like that of eyesight over blindness.
From The Cavalry General by Henry Graham Dakyns
Giles trundled her over toward the dusky canopy under which Abner stood chafing, conscious at once of his own powers and of his own social inexpertness.
From Under the Skylights by Henry Blake Fuller
The French pursued them, outsailed them, and missed them by their own inexpertness.
From The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford β Volume 1 by Peter Cunningham
