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Definition of amateurish:
Synonyms:
inexpert, unpaid, dilettantish, unskilled, dilettante, bush-league, amateur, ability, unprofessional, recreational, nonprofessional.
- unskillful (part of speech: adjective)
Usage examples:
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But the cool, quiet, scientific, deliberate riding of the Italians, trained in the finest school in the world, made all their rivals seem, somehow, a little rough and flurried and amateurish; and they gained, as they undoubtedly deserved, the chief honours of the show.
- "A New Medley of Memories", David Hunter-Blair. -
In my crude and amateurish way I attacked those eggs, breaking into them, not with the finesse the finished egg burglar would display, but more like a yeggman attacking a safe.
- "Eating in Two or Three Languages", Irvin S. Cobb. -
The police said it seemed to be a rather amateurish job, although whoever did it certainly succeeded in neutralizing the alarms.
- "Dead Giveaway", Gordon Randall Garrett.