(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.
Inexpert
Definition:
(a.) Destitute of experience or of much experience.
(a.) Not expert; not skilled; destitute of knowledge or dexterity derived from practice.
Example Sentences:
(1) The expert and inexpert alike are lining up to warn us not to leave it too late, from consultant gynaecologist Professor Geeta Nargund, who recently advised that women start trying for a baby at 30, in order to avoid falling victim to the “fertility time bomb” hanging over Britain, to broadcaster Kirstie Allsopp, who wrote that she would tell her daughter (if she had one) to have a child at 27 .
(2) The undesirable consequences of inexpert primary repair are contrasted with the near normal function and cosmesis obtained after repair carried out with the author's 5-layer suturing technique described here for the first time.
(3) Analysis of social factors reveals a high percentage of avoidable factors: 24.2% due to patient errors and 27% due to lack of or inexpert care during antenatal care, and 19% inadequate care in the hospital.
(4) A decision support module allows an inexpert user to have access to these models, and to be guided in the choice of the appropriate procedure.
(5) The menu-driven interactive approach insures a friendly user-to-system interface, and entails a little training for effective use by health workers inexpert in informatics.
(6) Two workmen suffered avoidable fatal injuries from broken parts of abrasive wheels during inexpert handling of these machine tools.
(7) But what others see as inexpert opportunism, Trudeau defends on grounds of principle.
(8) For cars, Tesla and others have launched what amounts to one of the biggest human-computer interaction experiments in the world to find out, trialling novel control modes and algorithms on inexpert and inexperienced drivers, and streaming data from thousands of vehicles back to the cloud for analysis.
(9) It was hypothesized that, as previous studies have shown, a high rate of participation would influence choice of the confederate as leader in the inexpert condition but that talkativeness would not be influential in the expert condition.
(10) Based on an inexpert translation of the spidery script by the Guardian, it appears to begin by listing the Tories' "red lines" on which they are not prepared to give ground: Europe, immigration and the Trident nuclear deterrent.
(11) On site, the technologies are often inexpertly applied, and along with expensive pharmaceuticals, they become a drain on national resources.
(12) Report on intra-abdominal hemorrhage following inexpert injection into the abdominal wall of calcium-heparin concentrate (Calciparin, Nattermann, Cologne) in a patient with septic abortion.
(13) Intra- and interobserver variation was lower among experienced morphometrists than among inexpert observers.
(14) A confederate in each group was identified as either expert or inexpert, made expert or inexpert contributions, and either talked a lot or relatively little.
(15) A complication of inexpert handling of the Olbert catheter system is presented.
(16) There's also a section called "bumhunts", a parody of crocodile hunts, in which a sadistic college-boy nomark ambushes a tramp, trusses him up inexpertly, and drags him off, as if he were a crocodile.
(17) The possibility of negative histologic results combined with positive cytology is shown to be due to inexpert biopsy.
(18) There are 4 arguments against do-it-y ourself testing: 1) it may be inaccurate or inexpertly done, 2) reagents can be hazardous to the health of users or small children, 3) it fails to save money because confirmation by health professionals is usually required, and 4) the individual may not have access to appropriate healt h care resources.
(19) "Peter Connolly died because too many unco-ordinated and fragmented services, staffed by too few and inexpert staff, were involved in his care.