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  • noun having a lack of experience of life.

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  • noun The condition of being callow; immaturity.

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  • noun lacking and evidencing lack of experience of life

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Examples

  • In his letters of this period I detect a kind of callowness and affectation which is not discernible in his foreign letters and journal.

    Washington Irving 2004

  • In his letters of this period I detect a kind of callowness and affectation which is not discernible in his foreign letters and journal.

    Washington Irving Warner, Charles D 1881

  • In his letters of this period I detect a kind of callowness and affectation which is not discernible in his foreign letters and journal.

    Washington Irving Charles Dudley Warner 1864

  • In his letters of this period I detect a kind of callowness and affectation which is not discernible in his foreign letters and journal.

    The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner Charles Dudley Warner 1864

  • In his letters of this period I detect a kind of callowness and affectation which is not discernible in his foreign letters and journal.

    Washington Irving Charles Dudley Warner 1864

  • Maybe it's a sign of my own puerility, but the "callowness" Matos refers to humanized him on

    Anthony Is Right 2008

  • The first was a familiar swell of pained and wincing why-oh-whying as it became clear that the Premier League's most consistently infuriating club would not win a trophy this season: talk of callowness, foreign-accented surrenderism and a crucial absence of Anglophone chest-thump.

    Arsenal's failure to win trophies is not down to faint hearts | Barney Ronay 2011

  • Wenger, however, prefers to invest in promise rather than experience, and at this juncture the consequence of a persistent collective callowness is that while his club may have a waiting list of 40,000 for their season tickets, the empty seats in the middle and upper tiers last night spoke of the dissatisfaction of those among their supporters who do not subscribe to the doctrine of keeping the faith through thick and thin.

    Arsenal fizzle out after early promise – just like last season | Richard Williams 2011

  • But I sense the callowness of pure Romanticism in such a rejection of restraint -- as coded into Odysseus's hood, into his arrival in disguise, as a beggar.

    Archive 2010-03-01 Hal Duncan 2010

  • Vincent Gray was elected mayor because he embodied the hopes of the majority of this city for adult leadership after years of immaturity, callowness, and greenness.

    DeMorning DeBonis: Feb. 28, 2011 2011

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