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

To think that Holliday's inexpertness should have brought about the agony of the past half-hour!

From Juggernaut by Campbell, Alice

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

And so again, when it comes to charging and retiring, the onward-dashing gallop, the well-skilled, timely retreat, expert knowledge of the ground and scenery will assert superiority over inexpertness like that of eyesight over blindness.

From The Cavalry General by Dakyns, Henry Graham

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 Rolt-Wheeler, Francis