inexpertness
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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
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 Emily Post
The old gunner, without even raising his voice, withered any possible reply on the part of the clumsy sailor, whose inexpertness had caused their failure to get the whale.
From The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries by Francis Rolt-Wheeler
His line in The Everlasting Mercy: And yet men ask, “Are barmaids chaste?” is a masterpiece of inexpertness.
From The Art of Letters by Robert Lynd
Yet this harsh inexpertness about life was the essence that made these people delightful to him.
From The Judge by Rebecca West
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