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How to pronounce callow in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms fledgling, unfledged

Examples of callow

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Callow said he expects the currency to weaken to 1,280 by the end of this month.
From the bloomberg.com
I can't believe that we were ever intending to play a team this callow in India.
From the guardian.co.uk
Cohen, bird's-nest hair knotted at the back, could be Nick Cave's callow cousin.
From the independent.co.uk
Callow might help convince them that this playwright was a star in his own right.
From the artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com
Daisy is supposed to be unspoiled, cunning and callow-and blithely attractive.
From the time.com
The callow, gifted, clumsy tenor was already being touted as someone to watch.
From the washingtonpost.com
Youthful McCabe makes Radames seem even more callow than the script suggests.
From the orlandosentinel.com
Surely, she's more confident than the callow 15-year-old she was when starting out?
From the mirror.co.uk
Callow even manages to perform the Romeo And Juliet balcony scene on his own.
From the guardian.co.uk
More examples
  • Fledgling: young and inexperienced; "a fledgling enterprise"; "a fledgling skier"; "an unfledged lawyer"
  • (callowness) lacking and evidencing lack of experience of life
  • (Callowness) Baldness is the state of having no hair or lacking hair where it often grows, especially on the head. The most common form of baldness is a progressive hair thinning condition called androgenic alopecia or "male pattern baldness" that occurs in adult male humans and other species. ...
  • Bald; Unfledged (of a young bird); Immature, lacking in life experience; Lacking color (of some newly emerged adult insects); Shallow or weak-willed; Unburnt (of a brick)
  • (adj) - young, inexperienced; low, flood-prone
  • [in an adult role but] lacking full adult experience or sophistication [Wordcrafter note: the bracket words are not in the dictionary definition. I believe the dictionaries err in this; some readers disagree with me.]