Preposition: in

• extreme: The zombies look frankly poor and all pretty much look the same, and any bits of gore look amateurish in the extreme.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• look: At some stage a complete re-design will need to be done as I feel that it still looks a bit amateurish.

Used with adjective complement

• look: The bezel edging around pictures was nice and small, but the control panel skin looked amateurish.

• seem: Although this was quite advanced for its day, it seems extremely amateurish now.

• feel: The site also feels amateurish, due to the somewhat crude design and various spelling mistakes.

• sound: The result is a 5.1 mix that sounds amateurish at best.

Modifying Another Word

• plain: Camera shake looks plain amateurish, and we all know the ' professional look ' is the holy grail of any aspiring amateur.

• rather: Wet Dream ( my first solo album released in 1978 ) was rather amateurish.

• very: The touching up of the auctioneers ' image is a very amateurish thing.

• so: And then the response they get is " it looks so amateurish.

• slightly: Mr Singleton, 11 Jul 05 This seemed like a slightly amateurish service which is cheaper than the standard airport parking.

• pretty: My bet is that this is a pretty amateurish effort to cause panic.

Modifies a noun

• feel: The voice acting isn't horrible, but it has an amateurish feel.

• way: You can't behave in an amateurish way at a club like Swansea.

• effort: My bet is that this is a pretty amateurish effort to cause panic.

• hesitation: There must be no download free game totally ware faltering now, no bungling, no mistakes, no amateurish hesitation.

• attempt: I am not a graphic designer, so I don't want to make an amateurish attempt and ruin your writing.

• performance: Bearing this in mind, Legge and Voce have created a sloppy and amateurish impro performance.