Inexperienced

Examples

• Inexperienced in government, she plunged into all manner of useless expenditure, and swamped her treasury almost in a day. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Now, don't you suppose, my inexperienced girl, that I cannot rebel, in high Promethean fashion, against the gods and fate as well as you. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• My husband, who is not over-confiding, ingenuous, or inexperienced, sees this plain thing no more than Mr Twemlow does--because there is no proof! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• I was dazzled, stimulated: my senses were excited; and being ignorant, raw, and inexperienced, I thought I loved her. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• The consequence of this, upon a mind so young, so lively, so inexperienced as Mrs. Brandon's, was but too natural. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• You know, mama, how young and inexperienced I was, when you presented him before me, of a sudden, as a lover. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• That I was inexperienced in the art of adapting my mind to minds very differently situated, and addressing them from suitable points of view. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Margaret, inexperienced as she was in all the necessary matter-of-fact business to be got through, did not know to whom to apply for advice. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• We need only provide for the present, and endeavour to fill with pleasant images the inexperienced fancy of your lovely niece. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Mrs. Abel and her husband are inexperienced. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The first impulse of an inexperienced man, should he notice an inrush of water, would be to increase the air pressure, which might be a very dangerous thing to do. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The moment we entered The Wheel of Fortune it was plain even to my inexperienced eyes that there was something wrong in the house. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Two rings adorned his white delicate hands, the value of which even my inexperienced observation detected to be all but priceless. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Inexperienced, stupid from inexperience. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Youth is too inexperienced to balance such nice considerations; parents do not often think of them, or think of them too late. Plato. The Republic.
• The first machines worked all right for the inventor, but inexperienced operators obtained surprising results through punching the keys and jerking the crank. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• You might have been in earnest in striving to get on in the world, without being so very sudden with a timid, loving, inexperienced girl. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• And as usual, I could not help noticing how superior the copies were to the original, that is, to my inexperienced eye. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• A thermometer could be put to good use in every kitchen; the inexperienced housekeeper who cannot judge of the heat of the oven would be saved bad bread, etc. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The officers with them, except the division commanders and possibly two or three of the brigade commanders, were equally inexperienced in war. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• My boy, I am neither nervous, nor poetic, nor inexperienced. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Rupert is race-old, he comes of an old race--and you seem to me so young, you come of a young, inexperienced race. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• This circumstance puzzled the inexperienced head of his cousin. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I am inexperienced and impetuous, and I have been a little spoilt; but I really am not so bad as I dare say I appear, or as you think me. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• I may not have used it to the best account; I was young and inexperienced; but I never turned a deaf ear to its artless pleading. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• You see, young wives are inexperienced, and I could take all that sort of thing on my shoulders. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Oh, not a party, I think, said an inexperienced young Farish who had arrived late. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.

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