amateurish
English
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[edit]amateurish (comparative more amateurish, superlative most amateurish)
- (derogatory) Suggesting or reflecting the efforts of an amateur; not seeming professional or polished.
- 1964 September, “New Books: The History of Railways. By Erwin Berghaus. Barrie & Rockcliff. 35s.”, in Modern Railways, page 222:
- Some of the photographs are new and interesting, but many captions are amateurish, uninformative or simply careless.
- 1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 55:
- Behind her on the wall was an amateurish painting of an old lady, set in an ornate antique frame.
- 2017 May 16, Mark Hertling, “Trump had the right to do it, but should he have?”, in CNN[1], archived from the original on 29 June 2017:
- The conduct of the meeting and the passing of intelligence is simply amateurish statecraft and intelligence tradecraft, and begs the question: Who are the professionals planning the strategy and operations that direct the President on the world stage?
- 2025 May 27, Thomas Carothers, “A new low on US democracy support”, in POLITICO[2], archived from the original on 1 July 2025:
- Moreover, Trump’s use of obvious disinformation — the amateurish video he showed Ramaphosa, and his accompanying statements about the “over a thousand” killings of white farmers — to try and make his case has uprooted whatever U.S. credibility had survived over the last several months.
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[edit]reflecting the efforts of an amateur
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