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
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 Peter Cunningham
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 Francis Rolt-Wheeler
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 Henry Graham Dakyns
Yet this harsh inexpertness about life was the essence that made these people delightful to him.
From The Judge by Rebecca West
