callowness
Example Sentences
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Takatsuki struggles to suppress his youthful callowness and self-destructive temper, and in Okada’s sensitive performance, we see an alarming vision of another encroaching tragedy.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 29, 2021
He was supposed to be the “grown-up in the room,” a counterweight to W.’s callowness.
From New York Times • Oct. 23, 2021
Both these characters, force-marched into maturity by the reckless adults in their lives, were pitiable, but Eisenberg made room to explore their callowness and unpleasantness, too.
From The Guardian • Jun. 25, 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
Aside from callowness, what is this man’s problem?
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
