callow youth

When I was a callow youth my employers sent me on postings to widely different countries.

I'm not a callow youth who is in need of your protection, your grace.

Like a callow youth courting his first girl, he stood in the shadows, uncertain and a little afraid.

All's well that ends well, seems to be the point, but, oh, what a callow youth!

He looked back on that ghost of himself and saw a callow youth who didn't have sense enough to know when he was well off.

To give all four significant minutes would risk the disaster of callow youth.

But I was a callow youth back then.

Like a callow youth in a rush, the dog was impatient with the measured pace of the older man.

Enough of chasing after her as a callow youth would do.

He moved toward her, feeling like a callow youth, his emotions in turmoil.