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 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

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

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

From Juggernaut by Campbell, Alice

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 Fuller, Henry Blake