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She described him as shallow and callow.callow = young and inexperienced
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Ruess was, in the words of Wallace Stegner, "a callow romantic, an adolescent esthete, an atavistic wanderer of the wastelands":† (source)
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He realized what a callow romantic he was.† (source)
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Such a callow, inexperienced youth, she thought.† (source)
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Nwoye's callow mind was greatly puzzled.† (source)
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Six months ago, the first time he set out to find her, he was still a callow kid.† (source)
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The only emissaries from the outside world are the occasional songbird who lands in the lindens beyond the quadrangle, blown astray by distant storm or battle or both, and two callow-faced corporals who come into the refectory every week or so—always after the prayer, always just as the boys have placed the first morsel of dinner in their mouths—to pass beneath the blazonry and stop behind a cadet and whisper in his ear that his father has been killed in action.† (source)
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It advertised his callowness—a callowness sheer and unutterable.† (source)standard suffix: 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.
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I thought you were supposed to be good, the typewriter said, his mind had invested it with a sneering and yet callow voice, the voice of a teen-age gunslinger in a Hollywood western, a kid intent on making a fast reputation here in Deadwood.† (source)
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News-items and three-line editorial squibs dug at his tyranny, his ignorance, his callowness.† (source)
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Because I can feel her changing me again: I was a callow boy, and then a man, good and bad.† (source)
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It advertised his callowness—a callowness sheer and unutterable.† (source)
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A callow youth, always smiling, skilled with a how; it was hard to imag Me him as Lord of Winterfell.† (source)
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His comrades-in-arms seemed to recoil from the slight, callow nineteen-year-old almost by reflex.† (source)
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"I heard the bullets whistle; and believe me there is something charming in the sound," he had written in a letter printed later in the London Magazine, which could be taken as the bravado of a callow youth, but, as he had found, he was one of those rare few who, under fire, were without fear.† (source)
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Huple, chewing away on a bulging wad of bubble gum, drank everything in with a callow, vacant expression on his fifteen-year old face.† (source)
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