As Mac had indicated, she'd been involved, in an amateurish way, on the wrong side of a job I'd been doing down in Mexico.

I was conscious, too, in an amateurish way, of the energy belt that powered my ring.

He pursued none of his interests in an amateurish way.

Still, since I'm here, don't y' know, I might as well look around in my amateurish way and try to learn what it's all about.

Learning to make music on traditional instruments, even in a limited, amateurish way, draws on body and mind together.

"Somebody," he was later to put it, "had acted in a very naive and amateurish way and seemed bent on wrecking the entire operation."

Ricky had pulled out a microscopic bit of handkerchief and was dabbing at the blood in an amateurish way.

In my own amateurish way I shall do what I can.

You can see the comparative gentleness of the English civilization by the amateurish way in which prize-fighting is always described in the boys' weeklies.

He took long walks and studied the flora and fauna of the country round Cambridge in his amateurish but intense way.