amateurish

[US]/'æmətərɪʃ/
[UK]/'æmətərɪʃ/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. not professional, lacking skill

Example Sentences

her amateurish interviewing technique.

The concert was rather an amateurish affair.

His amateurish attempt at painting resulted in a messy canvas.

The amateurish performance of the band disappointed the audience.

Her amateurish cooking skills made the dish taste bland.

The amateurish editing of the video made it hard to watch.

He made an amateurish mistake by forgetting to save his work.

The amateurish writing style of the author made the book difficult to read.

The amateurish design of the website made it look unprofessional.

Her amateurish attempts at gardening resulted in a dying garden.

His amateurish knowledge of photography showed in the blurry photos he took.

The amateurish acting in the school play was cringeworthy.

Real-world Examples

2020 is better funded and more organized in his 2016 campaign which many observers initially dismissed as amateurish.

Source: VOA Standard English_Americas

They wanted the job to look amateurish.

Source: Goodbye, My Love (Part 2)

It seemed amateurish to me and it was damned hard work.

Source: Blade (Part 1)

She had used a slow shutter speed, and her amateurish operation left all the scenes blurry.

Source: The Three-Body Problem I

I think it was kinda amateurish back in the early days in eastern Europe, that we just climbed out the window.

Source: Stanford Open Course: Negotiation Skills

They passed up much more valuable paintings by Raphael and Botticelli and among others they could have easily taken which suggests the thieves themselves may have been rather amateurish.

Source: Realm of Legends

" Jim's no politician, Mr. Marlowe, and I could hardly call myself a newspaper woman. This little paper we get out up here is a pretty amateurish proposition" .

Source: The Woman at the Bottom of the Lake (Part 1)

I'm going to try making some black sushi, a little rice, some berries, some grapes, a little hoisin sauce, and then I'll do a super amateurish job of wrapping this up.

Source: Art of Cooking Guide

" Bah! that is because you are dilettantish and amateurish. If you were an artist, you would think of Mistress Second-Cousin as antique form animated by Christian sentiment — a sort of Christian Antigone — sensuous force controlled by spiritual passion" .

Source: Middlemarch (Part Two)

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