inexpertness

He gripped it upside down, both hands on the hilt, clutched with an inexpertness obvious to even non-soldiers.

A LIFE UNDONE • by Robert J. Santa 2009

But without diving too far into my sudden confusion of identity, disappointment with my job, nostalgia for college, broken-heartedness, inexpertness, loneliness, and financially rooted stress, let me just sum it up by saying this past year has been the hardest year of my life.

Lindsay Mannering: Soundtrack: One Quarter-Lifer's Journey From Grammys to Grammys 2008

And so again, when it comes to charging and retiring, the onward-dashing gallop, the well-skilled, timely retreat, expert knowledge of the ground and scenery will assert superiority over inexpertness like that of eyesight over blindness.

The Cavalry General 2007

For it is not always from false taste that the species of reading above complained of proceeds; on the contrary, there may be a very correct perception of the writer's meaning and object, while from want of practice, from mere mechanical inexpertness, there may be an incapability of giving effect to that meaning: hence arises false emphasis, and a thousand other disagreeables.

The Young Lady's Mentor A Guide to the Formation of Character. In a Series of Letters to Her Unknown Friends An English Lady

The change from the normal functions of the anal membranes is slow, and the symptoms are not well marked and are consequently ignored for years owing to inexpertness in detecting an invading serious disease, until the time comes when the suffering can no longer be tolerated by the victim of the neglect.

Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis

To think that Holliday's inexpertness should have brought about the agony of the past half-hour!

Juggernaut Alice Campbell

The inexpertness of the operator made it desirable that the work be done under as favorable conditions as possible, with the hope that a favorable environment might overcome in part the lack of skill.

Northern Nut Growers Association Incorporated 39th Annual Report at Norris, Tenn. September 13-15 1948

Yet this harsh inexpertness about life was the essence that made these people delightful to him.

The Judge Rebecca West 1937

The old gunner, without even raising his voice, withered any possible reply on the part of the clumsy sailor, whose inexpertness had caused their failure to get the whale.

The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries Francis Rolt-Wheeler 1918

The factor usually relied upon to overcome the Orient's handicaps of inexperience and inexpertness in industrialism is its cheap labour.

The New World of Islam Lothrop Stoddard 1916