inexpertness

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

The French pursued them, outsailed them, and missed them by their own inexpertness.

From The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1 by Cunningham, Peter

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 Bagnold, Enid

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 Lansing, Robert

And as inexpertness is quite as irritating in personal as in mechanical bungling, so there is scarcely any one who sooner or later does not feel the need of social expertness.

From Etiquette by Post, Emily