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

His line in The Everlasting Mercy: And yet men ask, “Are barmaids chaste?” is a masterpiece of inexpertness.

From The Art of Letters by Lynd, Robert

The inexpertness of the operator made it desirable that the work be done under as favorable conditions as possible, with the hope that a favorable environment might overcome in part the lack of skill.

From Northern Nut Growers Association Incorporated 39th Annual Report at Norris, Tenn. September 13-15 1948 by Northern Nut Growers Association

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

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