callow
Example Sentences
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He presented himself as a callow young culture warrior prosecuting a case against Old Europe.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 2026
As with the proverbial frog in that pot of water, Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s chilling action-thriller “Cloud,” about a callow internet hustler’s reckoning, has nothing good to offer about where online anonymity and e-capitalism have gotten us.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 25, 2025
I was just a callow teen when Jimmy Carter became president.
From Salon • Jan. 2, 2025
In a team largely made up of callow youth, Spencer and his fellow underdogs were organised and disciplined and too mentally strong to buckle under the pressure Scotland put on them, which wasn't nearly enough.
From BBC • Mar. 26, 2024
Johnny, remembering the gawky, callow, but upstanding young leather-dresser of Fish Street, was surprised that anyone could value him so highly.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
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Brave New World
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