A complete novice need not and should not feel embarrassed or uncomfortable at a school.

As you will realise I am a complete novice regarding these problems and would appreciate a little advice to sort them out.

But it's interesting that you chose to go into new media, a field in which you were a complete novice.

Not bad for complete novices who had never danced a rock 'n' roll step before.

"We were complete novices in the world of the police when we started," he said.

When it comes to military operations, you're a complete novice.

It is a book for the complete novices in gambling, which includes the basics and the strategies.

She said most of the adults were complete novices at things she has been doing since elementary school.

In retrospect, I'm sure the time spent was pretty good for a complete novice.

It would hurt less, she knew, if she weren't, in fact, such a complete novice at everything she's done.