a. [f. prec. + -ISH.] Such as characterizes an amateur rather than a professional worker; having the faults or deficiencies of amateur work.
1834. Weekly Dispatch, 9 Nov., 378/2. Though professedly ‘amateurish,’ this exhibition has been partly professional.
1864. Miss Braddon, H. Dunbar, III. i. 6. Fond of pictures, in a frivolous amateurish kind of way.
1865. Dickens, Mut. Fr., I. x. 72. He goes in a condescending amateurish way, into the city.
1868. Pall Mall G., 19 Sept., 12/1. As a work of literary art, it is what painters call ‘amateurish.’
1881. Athenæum, No. 2810, 310/3. The book is far from dull reading, and is not written in a more amateurish style than some of the heavy volumes.
