“A celebrity would sit politely on Farley's sofa, while the bumbling amateur interviewer stammered his way through a series of inane questions.”

“Paul Burgess and Randy Olson are train enthusiasts and amateur photographers.”

“Nothing is more amateurish than to browse aimlessly all over the bookstore.”

“Yet when fox-hunting was considered a sport, from its inception in the eighteenth century, it was far from an amateurish or cost-free pursuit.”

“In spite of its amateurish direction and hypocritical preachment, it broke even.”