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
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
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
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
Giles trundled her over toward the dusky canopy under which Abner stood chafing, conscious at once of his own powers and of his own social inexpertness.
From Under the Skylights by Henry Blake Fuller
