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

But with the relative callowness of Bobby Wood and Gyasi Zardes in the roster, the coach has gone for the experience and current domestic form of Wondolowski.

From The Guardian • May 21, 2016

“I am ashamed of callowness as a scientist. I had just been dreaming to be a scientist who makes contribution to the development of human society.”

From The New Yorker • Feb. 29, 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

In the far corner, he saw Bull and Colonel Hedgepath watching him, enjoying his uncertainty, his callowness.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy