amateurishness

amateurish | American Dictionary

amateurish
adjective
us/ˌæm·əˈtʃʊər·ɪʃ, -ˈtɜr·ɪʃ/
performed without much skill:
The movie drags along, made even worse by amateurish acting.

Examples of amateurish

amateurish
In their mixture of amateurish incompleteness and ambitious effort, the pages bear witness to a conflict.
In contemporary discourse, proficiency was being prized above social status and ' amateurish ' was becoming a term of disparagement.
It's a rather amateurish doctoral thesis, which asks (but does not seriously attempt to answer) all the wrong questions.
Certainly it cannot be explained in terms of the survey's methodology or scope, which verged on the superficial and amateurish.
Her organization appeared amateurish, the parties supporting her failed to mobilize their activists, and her campaign failed to promote her as a credible president.
On the other hand, a poor communicator may simply be untrained in the use of the medium and nervous about appearing amateurish.
And, of course, the articles will all be amateurish nonsense.
Instead of the amateurish approach of the voluntary organisations, services were now demanded which built upon professional knowledge and expertise.
Discretion implies that trustees have considerable expertise, whereas the reality is, at best, a world characterized by trustee competence and, at worst, amateurish confusion.
My computer system must sound 'as if' it has high-level musicianship, so that my performance does not come across as sounding amateurish.
I think that some works for tape and acoustic instrument sound amateurish, partly because of this lack of fundamental musicianship: to be in tune.
By the 1960s, the for-the-record aesthetic was the taken-for-granted standard of professional performance and audience expectation; anything other than that sounded distinctly amateurish, home-made, of lower quality.
True, the quality does not always match the quantity; you can easily find articles that are thin or amateurish or that contain significant omissions and errors.
There is a cut which (conveniently?) obscures the precise location of the hotel, whilst adding to the authenticity of the 'home video' effect by being amateurish.
We cannot really afford to continue in this amateurish way.
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