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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
amateurish
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ It was a surprisingly amateurish movie.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All these look, to Western eyes, childish as well as amateurish.
▪ But efforts to keep the narrative on track are often disrupted by amateurish lighting and camerawork.
▪ But security officials also noted several signs of amateurish work.
▪ But the campaigns have been very amateurish and low-key and many of the younger people are not interested.
▪ But the rest of the acting is either poorly thought out or downright amateurish.
▪ For the subsidy has encouraged amateurish management and an uncommercial approach.
▪ Is his dramatic performance appropriate parody or merely amateurish?
▪ Most were amateurish endeavors, he said.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Amateurish

Amateurish \Am`a*teur"ish\, a. In the style of an amateur; superficial or defective like the work of an amateur. -- Am`a*teur"ish*ly, adv. -- Am`a*teur"ish*ness, n.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
amateurish

1863; from amateur + -ish. Related: Amateurishly; amateurishness.

Wiktionary
amateurish

a. Suggesting or reflecting the efforts of an amateur; not seeming professional or polished.

WordNet
amateurish

adj. lacking professional skill or expertise; "a very amateurish job"; "inexpert but conscientious efforts"; "an unskilled painting" [syn: amateur, inexpert, unskilled]

Usage examples of "amateurish".

The undertow of it all was what he saw as the imminent break-up of his marriage, and all because of that one careless, amateurish error on his own part.

I became acquainted with them on the night before my trip, when they were both busy in an amateurish way making up cardboard boxes of lunch, and invited me to help them.

It was all crude and amateurish to begin with, but I did feel from that moment onwards a great sensation of comfort and a truer knowledge of serenity than I had ever obtained before.

He would have insisted on looking at my amateurish efforts, and I could not bear that.

They behaved in a professional way, cutting me like that, and there is something strangely amateurish too.

The repair job was so distinctly amateurish that he suspected Flyte had soldered the frames himself, to save money.

Germans looked amateurish and unsmart, the Chinese correct, unflustered.

If anything, the Corbanites, despite their very visible and understandable anger, seemed awkward and amateurish, unorganized in their opposition, while the Bonita Vistans seemed prepared, methodical, and capable.

Smyt, and Burkitt mentally chided himself for such an amateurish slip.

Iraq itself, where they were in complete control and had no need for stealth, their efforts proved to be astonishingly amateurish.

The prose struck him as overwritten and amateurish, so he closed the cover loudly and downed another cup of wine.

There were charts on the wall with amateurish scribblings and other instruments of measurement strewn along a nearby table.

He scanned rows of mathematical symbols, finding the approach amateurish, if primly accurate and sincere.

The amateurish attempts at combat by the berobed students of the unconscious martial-arts instructor were met by a flurry of slashing legs, crashing chops and the whirling manoeuvres of a judo expert.

The most violent amateurish drawing in this collection depicts a bosomy woman in a low-cut dress sitting in a chair, her hands bound be­hind her, her head thrown back as a right-handed man plunges a knife into the center of her chest at the level of her sternum.