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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
- 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
- Six months ago, the first time he set out to find her, he was still a callow kid.Sonia Nazario -- Enrique's Journey
- 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
- 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
- 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
- I felt the puissance and evil of their thoughtless, callow maggotry.Pat Conroy -- The Lords of Discipline
- He realized what a callow romantic he was.Dan Brown -- Angels & Demons
callow = young and inexperienced
callow = young and inexperienced
callow = young and inexperienced