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US
/ˈæməˌtʃɝɪʃ/
]
[ UK /ˈæmətəɹɪʃ/ ]
[ UK /ˈæmətəɹɪʃ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
lacking professional skill or expertise
inexpert but conscientious efforts
a very amateurish job
an unskilled painting
How To Use amateurish In A Sentence
- Weakness number one is a cumulative amateurishness. The spotlight begins to shine on the coalition's flaws and faultlines | Andrew Rawnsley
- While no one disputes Ahola's ability to lift 900 pounds, some have found his performance refreshingly unpracticed, others off-puttingly amateurish.
- Police found an "amateurish" but potentially powerful bomb that apparently began to detonate but did not explode in a smoking vehicle in Times Square, authorities said Sunday. Bomb found in car near Times Square
- Within 60 seconds of that score, however, Scotland conceded a try of unutterable amateurishness.
- The photographs are of indifferent quality, the layout and design clumsy and amateurish.
- The previously undomesticated boy quickly realizes that half-measures like hastily buying his little cousin a pre-packaged lunch at a convenience store on the way to kindergarten can have traumatic consequences in a milieu where bringing in an amateurish or non-homemade bento is perceived as a symptom of a shamefully inadequate family. Daddies dearest
- What he does provide are gross out jokes, amateurish animation techniques, and hideous images of the human body and deformed flesh.
- Is his dramatic performance appropriate parody or merely amateurish?
- The US delegation was shocked by the amateurishness of it all.
- The amateurish performances, hamfisted dramatics and video nasty violence are a completely resistible combination.