callowness
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Matthew Patrick Davis accentuates with a wink the callowness of Joseph II, an emperor who perhaps sees in Mozart a reflection of his own stunted nature.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 2026
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
It has an aura of the best kind of earnest conversation that kept you up all night in your early adulthood — but it transcends that potential callowness with its Keatsian sense of impending mortality.
From New York Times ● Feb. 8, 2016
Aside from callowness, what is this man’s problem?
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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