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young and inexperienced

She described him as shallow and callow.

callow = young and inexperienced

I'm not the callow youth of yesteryear.
Ken Morley
Spare me your callow enthusiasms, good friend.
Twain, Mark -- A Tramp Abroad
Nwoye's callow mind was greatly puzzled.
Chinua Achebe -- Things Fall Apart

callow = young and inexperienced

Can it be that we do not love to be reminded that we are very young and callow in a world that was old when we came into it?
John Steinbeck -- Travels with Charley

callow = young and inexperienced

Six months ago, the first time he set out to find her, he was still a callow kid.
Sonia Nazario -- Enrique's Journey

callow = young and inexperienced

They are not callow like the young of most birds, but more perfectly developed and precocious even than chickens.
Thoreau, Henry David -- Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedience
And then our jolly little nest here would be broken up — and we poor callow nestlings thrown out on the cruel world of boardinghouses again.
Montgomery, Lucy Maud -- Anne of The Island
Because I can feel her changing me again: I was a callow boy, and then a man, good and bad.
Gillian Flynn -- Gone Girl
Between dances she sat in the largest chair, waving her cigarette, summoning her callow admirers to come and talk to her.
Sinclair Lewis -- Babbitt
'What things you do say, father,' he protested with a callow giggle.
Graham Greene -- The Power and the Glory
Such a callow, inexperienced youth, she thought.
Margaret Peterson Haddix -- Uprising
A callow youth, always smiling, skilled with a how; it was hard to imagMe him as Lord of Winterfell.
George R.R. Martin -- A Clash of Kings
They are not callow like the young of most birds, but more perfectly developed and precocious even than chickens.
Henry David Thoreau -- Walden
News-items and three-line editorial squibs dug at his tyranny, his ignorance, his callowness.
Sinclair Lewis -- Arrowsmith

(Editor's note: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.)

Then, past a boy, the callow down began To shade my chin, and call me first a man.
Virgil -- The Aeneid
It advertised his callowness—a callowness sheer and unutterable.
Jack London -- The Call of the Wild

(Editor's note: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.)

He was, as mentioned, callow and youthful, as yet, at nineteen, without much developed musculature or hair on his lip.
Chang-rae Lee -- A Gesture Life
Ruess was, in the words of Wallace Stegner, "a callow romantic, an adolescent esthete, an atavistic wanderer of the wastelands":
Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild
I felt the puissance and evil of their thoughtless, callow maggotry.
Pat Conroy -- The Lords of Discipline

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