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
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
Every few days some unfortunate was buried on Boot Hill, a victim of his own inexpertness with the six-shooter.
From A Man Four-Square by Raine, William MacLeod
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 Post, Emily
