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Callow
1/ ˈkæləʊ /
noun
- CallowSimon1949MBritishTHEATRE: actorTHEATRE: theatre directorWRITING: author Simon. born 1949, British actor and theatre director
callow
2/ ˈkæləʊ /
adjective
- lacking experience of life; immature
- rare.(of a young bird) unfledged and usually lacking feathers
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Derived Forms
- ˈcallowness, noun
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Other Words From
- callow·ness noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of callow1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of callow1
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Example Sentences
That was what I sought when, as a callow and hormonal high school student, I first discovered Lawrence.
Anyone going through Prozac Nation can certainly find plenty of callow moments when Wurtzel does whine.
But now that veneer is gone, and what remains is a callow man-child at odds with himself.
This is clearly not a boast; it seems, rather, a shamed admission of petty, callow cruelty.
The last thing we should do is help the callow—and dangerous—Kim continue his rule.
In this callow atmosphere, Brooke Astor would never be an icon, but she is remembered with nostalgia.
There lay the callow brood marked out by Nature and man, for her ministrations.
Next morning early they sent in their 'callow' verses to the great man, and followed shortly themselves.
When he was haled into court, despite his callow years, he came with insolent confidence, as one above the law.
"I wonder the rebels had the courage to pursue you," said a very callow youth named Graves.
As I looked at the two callow things in the grass, a dismay and weak helplessness quite overcame me.
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