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Amateurishly

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.

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amateurishly

adv. In an amateurish or nonprofessional manner.

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amateurishly

adv. in an amateurish manner; "he performed the piece amateurishly" [syn: like an amateur] [ant: expertly]

Usage examples of "amateurishly".

It had been amateurishly bandaged, and friction against the high cantle of his warkak had torn the cloths loose.

I was still celebrating having finally worn down dad's resistance to having a computer in the house, and was therefore far too busy kicking pixel and re-staging the attack of the Imperial AT-ATs on the rebel snow trenches to be bothered sparing more than the most cursory glance at what was, when all was said and done, a lump of amateurishly painted cardboard, a handful of non-motorised and very basic Lego bits, a few adulterated cards and what looked suspiciously like an exam paper.

A fortyish man named Hudspeth who sported a pencil-thin mustache, he appeared a greasy-looking character who would not have been out of place in an old twentieth-century "smoker": an amateurishly filmed porno flick where the males never bothered to remove their dark socks.

After a period of isolation, stepping back into society is made easier by meeting strangers at an art display or performing, rather amateurishly perhaps, at a musical soiree.

He set up observation posts in the most amateurishly obvious places, the Venetian spires of the churches, and thereby provided the Germans with the most admirable opportunities for rangefinding and target practice.

It was a wash of white, shaped like a very amateurishly drawn Turkish crescent.