It was an amateurish attempt to throw off suspicion.

Entitled "Goitre", the sketch saw the two make a very amateurish attempt at creating unsettling sketches.

Their clumsy, amateurish attempts were pathetic, and my dire predictions were realized.

He can even make an old cynic like me shake my head at his pathetic amateurish attempt to appear to have some control over the situation.

The police have suggested that he accidentally set the fire in a misguided and amateurish attempt to increase the value of some scrap metal.

It seems possible that there was indeed an amateurish attempt at some form of coup, or at least some dangerous loose talk.

An amateurish attempt to get us to tip our hand.

The important thing is that we were not fooled by their amateurish attempt at deception.

She was kneeling beside the body of her friend, making somewhat amateurish attempts at artificial respiration.

This is some sort of amateurish attempt by the captain to force a false confession out of me, and it isn't going to work.