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
It showed an inexpertness in drafting and a fault in expression which were chargeable to lack of appreciation of the need of exactness or else to haste in preparation.
From The Peace Negotiations A Personal Narrative by Robert Lansing
His line in The Everlasting Mercy: And yet men ask, “Are barmaids chaste?” is a masterpiece of inexpertness.
From The Art of Letters by Robert Lynd
To think that Holliday's inexpertness should have brought about the agony of the past half-hour!
From Juggernaut by Alice Campbell
I know and remember this longing; it was present through all my early years in a large boarding-school; but there it was naturally corrected by the changes of growth and the inexpertness of youth.
From A Diary Without Dates by Enid Bagnold
