Word: amateurish
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...many years I have dealt with the products of our elementary and high school education mills. No longer do I gag over weird English, amateurish spelling, fuzzy thinking and inability to add and multiply...
Nevertheless, the most accomplished novelists are sometimes guilty of amateurish passages, exaggerated humor, forced sprightliness, pompous philosophizing, misty sentimentality. Conventional poetry can be glaringly revealed in translation...
...Curmudgeon probably didn't know any better but certainly Davies, being a director of Standard Oil of California, was up to his capitalistic tricks. The conclusion of Mr. lakes was arrived at by the very amateurish method of dividing known reserves by present output. "Known reserves" is a misleading term because new methods of getting petroleum out of nature are discovered at a greater rate than it can be consumed...
...lights are bad enough, but unfortunately the Idler staff was further weakened by poor designers. The exterior scene--purporting to be a garden--had all the carmarks of a grammar school watercolor exercise; and the interior seemed overcomplicated for the small stage. Costuming was excellent, but makeup again seemed amateurish to an inexcusable degree, as principals frequently appeared with faces mottled by huge black spots...
...Manhattan, the amateurish Draft-Eisenhower-for-President League granted its 17th and 18th state charters (to chapters in New York and Massachusetts). It also began passing out buttons ("I Like Ike") and got all tangled up in the political doubletalk of the week: "We want to keep away from any implication that he is a candidate. Though he hasn't said he won't be, he definitely has said he isn't." In New Haven, barnstorming Henry Wallace back-patted Ike as a "singularly enlightened man," predicted that he could win the presidency on either ticket, would...