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

Of most, the philosophic attitude approximates broadly to that of Spencer, though many recognise and avow the inexpertness of Spencer’s metaphysic.

From Rationalism by Robertson, J. M. (John Mackinnon)

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

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 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