Amateurish
['æmətərɪʃ]
Definition
(adj.) lacking professional skill or expertise; 'a very amateurish job'; 'inexpert but conscientious efforts'; 'an unskilled painting' .
Edited by Laurence--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) In the style of an amateur; superficial or defective like the work of an amateur.
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Examples
- I am amateurish if you like: I do _not_ think that all the universe is straining towards the obscure significance of your pictures. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Occasionally he has exhibited a rather amateurish effort to be grimy and shirt-sleeved. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- He goes, in a condescending amateurish way, into the City, attends meetings of Directors, and has to do with traffic in Shares. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
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