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Definition of Amateurishness
1. Noun. Something that demonstrates a lack of professional competency.
Definition of Amateurishness
1. Noun. The quality of being amateurish. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Amateurishness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Amateurishness
Literary usage of Amateurishness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Selections from the Prose Writings of John Henry, Cardinal Newman by John Henry Newman (1895)
"... the laziness and amateurishness of Oxford scholarship and on the limitations
of its curriculum. In the October number for 1809, Sydney Smith, ..."
2. Our Women: Chapters on the Sex-discord by Arnold Bennett (1920)
"The bitter fruit of amateurishness is ripening, and it will have to be eaten ...
She accepts her amateurishness as due to the secret and unalterable nature ..."
3. Some Chemical Problems of Today by Robert Kennedy Duncan (1911)
"... this efficiency he finds himself outside his field of knowledge, and hence
peculiarly liable to amateurishness and to the mistakes that follow from it. ..."
4. The Claims of French Poetry: Nine Studies in the Greater French Poets by John Cann Bailey (1907)
"And few things show this spirit of amateurishness more than the Hermes of Chenier,
which discusses the origin of things and their destination with vigour, ..."
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