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单词 callow
释义
callowcal‧low /ˈkæləʊ $ -loʊ/ adjective Word Origin
WORD ORIGINcallow
Origin:
Old English calu ‘hairless’
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • a callow young man
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • But now, here I was being handily and insolently dismissed as a psychedelic Diplodicus by a gang of callow sub-Generation Xers.
  • 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.
  • He'd need to keep his senses sharp and try to put any such callow thoughts quite out of his mind.
  • I encouraged them to denounce the callow subjugation of women and switch from heels to flats.
  • What Clive wanted was callow youth.
  • With clunky writing, the characters are simply shallow, callow and cold, when not being sappy or self-pitying.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY
 a callow youth
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN
· What Clive wanted was callow youth.
young and without experience – used to show disapproval SYN  immature:  a callow youth
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