1. The concert was rather an amateurish affair.

2. Beside her other players seem amateurish.

3. His paintings are rather amateurish.

4. He scoffed at our amateurish attempts.

5. Their website looks amateurish.

6. It was a surprisingly amateurish movie.

7. Is his dramatic performance appropriate parody or merely amateurish?

8. Most were amateurish endeavors, he said.

9. A pretty amateurish way to run a professional sport.

10. But security officials also noted several signs of amateurish work.

11. For the subsidy has encouraged amateurish management and an uncommercial approach.

12. The paintings looked amateurish.

13. But the campaigns have been very amateurish and low-key and many of the younger people are not interested.

14. The embryonic plot appeared to have been an amateurish operation which did not pose a serious threat to the government.

15. Yesterday's heroes ran an amateurish campaign and, in the main, are no fans of quick unity.

16. But the tone is amateurish and counterproductive.

17. We have to develop a less amateurish approach to our organisa-tions.

18. Shoddy and amateurish, the camerawork and editing are about the same as a high school computer graphics student could do.

19. Free-form documents look amateurish and can be difficult for audio-visual professionals to understand.

20. Wings are absolutely unforgiving: used in an amateurish manner, they will exaggerate postural ineptness and inadequate muscular control.

21. All these look, to Western eyes, childish as well as amateurish.

22. Evolutionism played only a minor role because it was associated with the old, rather amateurish techniques that led to unlimited speculation.

23. But efforts to keep the narrative on track are often disrupted by amateurish lighting and camerawork.

24. But the rest of the acting is either poorly thought out or downright amateurish.

25. There were no photographs on the bookshelves in the corner[Sentencedict], though there were some amateurish sketches of heads and bodies.

26. The coming of war in 1914 quickly gave new impetus to the hitherto rather limited and amateurish propaganda efforts of governments.

27. Even if his history is half-baked, there is nothing amateurish about Mr Severin's voyage.

28. Does this mean that the web design can look sloppy or amateurish?

29. And , of course, the articles will all be amateurish nonsense.