amateur
Example Sentences
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It was the brainchild of Bay Area television host Bruce Sedley, who also fashioned himself as an amateur inventor.
From Los Angeles Times
Some reps suggest pay in the $6,000 to $20,000 range—enough to cover bills with outside work while keeping the legislature amateur.
Some observers may have called the burglars amateurs, but a source with knowledge of the probe said they were "not such bunglers after all".
From Barron's
The same logic reaches the amateur stock picker on Reddit, the crypto analyst on YouTube, the financial adviser with a newsletter.
"But it's been run like an amateur sports club for a long time because of funding issues."
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
