callow

EXPERIENCEDyoung and without experience – used to show disapproval 年轻幼稚的，不成熟的〔含贬义〕 SYN immature

a callow youth

幼稚的年轻人

Examples from the Corpus

callow• With clunky writing, the characters are simply shallow, callow and cold, when not being sappy or self-pitying.• Elsewhere, callow phrasing, smudged ensemble and enervated rhythms were commonplace.• Great entertainers are treated shabbily, while callow, shallow twerps land their own series after half a dozen gigs.• But now, here I was being handily and insolently dismissed as a psychedelic Diplodicus by a gang of callow sub-Generation Xers.• I encouraged them to denounce the callow subjugation of women and switch from heels to flats.• He'd need to keep his senses sharp and try to put any such callow thoughts quite out of his mind.• a callow young man• What Clive wanted was callow youth.

callow youth• What Clive wanted was callow youth.

Origin callow

Old English calu “hairless”

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Corpus

BNC: 22424 COCA: 27305

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