amateurism
[am-uh-choo-riz-uh m, -tyoo-, -chuh-, -tuh-, am-uh-tur-iz-uh m]
- the practice, quality, or character of an amateur or amateurish performance.
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Origin of amateurism
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Examples from the Web for amateurism
Contemporary Examples
Thorpe was immediately defended around the world as a scapegoat to the elitist—and already hollow—code of amateurism.
By 1982 the Olympic ideal of amateurism was as good as dead.
Historical Examples
But in every branch of politics and some departments of science it was an age of amateurism.
England and GermanyEmile Joseph Dillon
Exclamation points must be used sparingly: a row of three or four of them at the end of a sentence is a sign of amateurism.
Short Story WritingCharles Raymond Barrett