inexperience
lack of experience.
lack of knowledge, skill, or wisdom gained from experience.
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How to use inexperience in a sentence
Despite the inexperience, she has come out triumphant, doctorate and all.
Given their inexperience and their institutions’ appropriate commitments to minimize their exposure to the virus, the interns are largely removed from the adrenaline-pumping action.
Brand-new doctors, enlisted to battle the pandemic | Colleen M. Farrell | July 2, 2021 | Washington PostHowever their moves potentially highlight a leadership style, which, perhaps through inexperience, inability to deal constructively with conflict, or lack of desire to be pushed out of their comfort zones, chose to opt out rather than lean in.
The Va’ Sentiero team initially suffered from inexperience and warned of the psychological challenges of being on the go for several months.
Hundreds of People Are Section-Hiking the AT of Italy | Agostino Petroni | May 5, 2021 | Outside OnlineIt seems likely that this inexperience and inability to play the game properly was what doomed Powell.
What line did Sidney Powell cross that Rudy Giuliani didn’t? | Philip Bump | November 23, 2020 | Washington Post
Occasionally, his inexperience betrayed him into raw deals but, taken overall, he worked well for them.
What It Was Like to Watch the Beatles Become the Beatles—Nik Cohn Remembers | Nik Cohn | February 9, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTLater, Mae complained to reporters about the “inexperience of the director,” but somehow found time to stroke her fan base.
When Hollywood Flirted with Porn: 1969, ‘Myra Breckinridge,’ ‘Beyond the Valley of the Dolls,’ & 20th Century Fox | Robert Hofler | February 1, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTDespite his age and relative inexperience, this guy is cooking on a level I rarely see or taste.
A clearly rattled Walsh showed his inexperience as he began to answer anyway before being hushed from the bench.
He avoids the accusation of inexperience he would have faced in giving the nod to Marco Rubio.
Moreover, I will admit that I got frightened at my inexperience, and confined my experiments to three or four cavities.
The Idyl of Twin Fires | Walter Prichard EatonHe must pit his trained mind knowledge and power of will against the weak determination and brain of inexperience.
Menotah | Ernest G. HenhamBut the youth and inexperience of Riaro excused the enormity of a crime perpetrated under the sanction of the supreme pontiff.
Rule of the Monk | Giuseppe GaribaldiOne does not hate a youngster seven years one's junior merely because he is a mass of inexperience and self-sufficiency.
In Accordance with the Evidence | Oliver OnionsAnd this indulgent reflection should accompany the mature reader through all such records of boyish inexperience.
British Dictionary definitions for inexperience
/ (ˌɪnɪkˈspɪərɪəns) /
lack of experience or of the knowledge and understanding derived from experience
Derived forms of inexperience
- inexperienced, adjective
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