(a.) In the style of an amateur; superficial or defective like the work of an amateur.
Example Sentences:
(1) In any halfway-awake western nation, and, to be frank, in many reaches of British national life, this would be considered an amateurish absurdity, a guarantee of eventual failure.
(2) This was similar, particularly given that, after all their early endeavour, an amateurish mistake undermined them before the half-hour mark as Aldo Simoncini tripped over his team-mate Luca Tosi’s foot in the six-yard box to allow Phil Jagielka to loop a free header into the gaping net.
(3) These short films aren't always musical; Laser Cats is a deliberately retro-amateurish sci-fi series about mutant cats who shoot lasers from their eyes, while a student film about giraffes claims that they are from outer space and will destroy mankind.
(4) Those who do well are trained to fill a range of roles within the civil service – as teachers, nurses, or even newscasters within Eritrea’s amateurish state television network, Eri-TV.
(5) In the first case, an amateurishly modified 8-mm blank revolver firing 6.35-mm- (.25)-caliber ammunition was used; in the second case, a rifle firing 5.6-mm (.22)-caliber ammunition with a reduced charge was used.
(6) The amateurish video that then emerged of Simms trying to prove to UK Anti-Doping that Farah could not hear his doorbell when testers came to call in 2011 will not do wonders for his reputation.
(7) Arcade Fire's sound is all their own, and it has become – even with its moments of ramshackle amateurishness, and its merging of the raw and the refined – one of the key rock signatures of recent times.
(8) But there was an amateurish quality to the ANC's operations at the time, and so several possible explanations as to how he was betrayed.
(9) "One of the big surprises was how amateurish it was," Al-Mubarak said of City during another meeting in Abu Dhabi.
(10) Allegations that the Russian government deliberately hacked Democratic party emails to try to steer Donald Trump to victory in the US presidential election have been rebutted by the now president and denounced as “baseless” and “amateurish” by the Kremlin .
(11) Ukip, meanwhile, increasingly seems a divided, amateurish and redundant force .
(12) It said the process had been so amateurish that it had probably left a high quantity of noxious sulphur compounds in the vast quantity of stinking black waste.
(13) Readers are excited by having access to new voices, but they've not been waiting for unedited, unproofread and amateurish books.
(14) New York police are investigating a failed terror attack in Times Square after defusing an "amateurish" but potentially powerful car bomb last night.
(15) My results were amateurish and sometimes unsettling, but you can browse those created by other fans, looking at the most popular, the most recent, or the ones that have been "seen by Gaga" (none, at the time of writing, but it is quite a busy week...) Any GIF you see in the app can be tapped on to get a closer view, given "Props" and remixed using the same creation tools, which is a handy way to figure out how the better ones were made.
(16) These are baseless allegations substantiated with nothing, done on a rather amateurish, emotional level,” Vladimir Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, told journalists on Monday.
(17) He hailed amateurishness as the highest cultural achievement.
(18) Ian Swales, the Redcar MP whose constituency Oakeshott also polled, told his local Gazette that the results suggesting he would lose his seat were "based on a small sample and look very amateurish".
(19) Little evidence has been provided by the US in support of its claim and the amateurish and sloppy nature of it have led to many analysts speculating that the alleged plot might have been the work of rogue elements, with the aim of pleasing the authorities in Tehran or, in contrast, smearing a regime which is already isolated by the international community.
(20) Myners explains that he became increasingly exasperated by the amateurish approach followed by the Co-op board.
Dilettante
Definition:
(v. t.) An admirer or lover of the fine arts; popularly, an amateur; especially, one who follows an art or a branch of knowledge, desultorily, or for amusement only.
Example Sentences:
(1) As if to prove her silly dilettantism, when a journalist asked Dasha about her favourite artists, she replied, "I'm, like, really bad at remembering names."
(2) No dilettante side-project of the idle millionaire rock star, this.
(3) Those who have worked closely with the foreign secretary in the past say his ego is more fragile than it can appear, and he is sensitive to the accusation of being a political dilettante.
(4) In the reality of the early 1960s, he was the wealthy playboy-dilettante secretary of state for war who almost destroyed Harold Macmillan's Conservative government by the discovery of his dalliance with the dancer and call-girl Christine Keeler, who was also said to be sleeping with the Soviet naval attaché Evegeny Ivanov.
(5) An open recognition of the problems in the psychoanalytic study of literature should serve to minimize dilettantism and raise the level of scholarship.
(6) In 1666, he's angry about the smug dilettantism of the courtly elite, and the appalling arse-licking conformity that even his closest friend indulges in.
(7) And Vronsky’s own dilettante-ish attempt to paint Anna is abandoned: a bad and complex omen.
(8) Nevertheless it proved Bonaparte a bona fide creative psychoanalyst and not a dilettante propped up by her friendship with Freud.
(9) "There's no need to be artsy-fartsy … only dilettantes prefer enigmatic works."
(10) Ronson admits it rankles when people assume he got his breaks because of his privileged background or that he is little more than a millionaire dilettante, playing with his electronic synths and Gucci-designed shoes whenever the fancy takes him.
(11) Bush isn’t succumbing to Sting-esque world music dilettantism, though, as the seemingly incongruous parts are all held together in service of her unique musical vision.
(12) The documentary explores the headlong rush of a brilliant schoolboy with illegible handwriting who enjoyed the dilettante life of Oxford University before illness sparked a lifelong frenzy of discovery about the origins of the universe, which began as a graduate at Cambridge University and has astounded the world.
(13) Russell Brand's call on the young not to vote was the pseudo-leftism of a dumb dilettante precisely because politicians can ignore the interests of the young when the young do not threaten them at the polling booths.
(14) "[Gandhi] came off as a practiced politician who knew how to get his message across, was precise and articulate and demonstrated a mastery that belied the image some have of [him] as a dilettante," the official said.
(15) Her Stakhanovite work rate as a writer and as a working peer made most of us feel like dilettantes.
(16) Along the way, there has been the worst kind of ministerial dilettantism and inconsistency.
(17) Unlike his TV persona as Jack Donaghy on 30 Rock , the self-described dilettante is an intelligent interviewer with a voice that mesmerises.
(18) It's hard to work out if Lebedev worries about whether people see him as a spoilt, rich dilettante.
(19) His appointment was not a success, not least with Castle, who regarded him as a dilettante, not really interested in pursuing his policies and proposed legislation.
(20) Unlike dilettante-esque me, most of the journalists out in Brazil will be there for the full five weeks.