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inexpert

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noun

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of inexpert
Adjective
The procedure is not without risk: The mortality rate from tellurium injections is 12 percent, and can rise as high as 68 percent for children when the work is performed by an inexpert hand. Aaron Timms, The New Republic, 2 Sep. 2022 Despite the exhibition’s dynamism and appreciated efforts to frame each work for the viewer, the accompanying wall text and political readings felt thin and inexpert at times. Dallas News, 6 May 2022 That’s not surprising: Conspiracy theorists often aim to ply the inexpert masses with plausible-sounding but inaccurate legalisms in order to sow confusion. Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2021 The evening was a simple, completely inexpert exercise in apolitical comity. Nicholas Dawidoff, The New Yorker, 6 June 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inexpert
Adjective
  • By the way, Valera wasn’t the only inexperienced Guardian to make a pivotal play.
    Levi Weaver, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Fleck said that type of at-the-line adjustment is atypical for such an inexperienced player; Lindsey was making only his fourth collegiate start.
    Andy Greder, Twin Cities, 29 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Although Beijing has outcompeted Washington in Myanmar up to this point, the junta’s woefully incompetent management of its currency and foreign reserves presents an opportunity for the United States to recalibrate its approach to the country.
    Dan Swift, Foreign Affairs, 30 Sep. 2025
  • California, with its weak and incompetent Governor, has been particularly hard hit!
    Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Maggie is a snoop—and a clumsy one.
    Justin Chang, New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2025
  • But the character’s state of servitude is largely hidden in clumsy blocking.
    Frank Rizzo, Variety, 29 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • James is one of them, though his kindly attempts to be there for Linda, as amateur repairman and reluctant babysitter, have a way of backfiring, usually on himself.
    Justin Chang, New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Clanton has struggled since turning pro this summer, but the guy also had six PGA Tour top 20s as an amateur.
    Brody Miller, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Gostisbehere, Carolina’s best offensive defenseman, being unfit for the top four adds to that pressure.
    The Athletic NHL, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
  • He was deemed unfit to stand trial, and spent the next 11 years in psychiatric hospitals.
    Elizabeth Yuko, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • That’s six games without a goal now for their new striker, who still looks awkward in this side.
    Tim Spiers, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2025
  • The onion on top is a little awkward to cut and to eat, so think of this as a knife-and-fork cornbread.
    Ann Taylor Pittman, Southern Living, 5 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Showcase the messy beginner stage, on social media, to your close circles of friends — not just the end product.
    Sinéad O'Sullivan, CNBC, 3 Oct. 2025
  • This form of exercise is suitable for all fitness levels, especially beginners.
    Sherri Gordon, Health, 2 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Mix Materials The beauty in the unfitted kitchen aesthetic is found in its collected look.
    Patricia Shannon, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 May 2025
  • The venerable American clan at the center of the narrator’s reminiscences are wholly unfitted to the modern world and no longer endowed with the fortune that one of them brought home long ago on clipper ships.
    Daniel Akst, WSJ, 2 Sep. 2022

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“Inexpert.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inexpert. Accessed 10 Oct. 2025.

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