amateur-looking

Updated: July 13, 2025

When Logan arrived at the station, a bowery, flowery, amateur-looking depot, like one of the 'model villages' that we sometimes see off the stage, he was met by the Earl, his son Lord Scremerston, and Miss Willoughby. Logan's baggage was spirited away by menials, who doubtless bore it to the house in some ordinary conveyance, and by the vulgar road.

Andrew Lang - The Disentanglers

Union Square, at the top of the Avenue or what practically then counted for the top was encased, more smartly, in iron rails and further adorned with a fountain and an aged amateur-looking constable, awful to my generation in virtue of his star and his switch.

Henry James - A Small Boy and Others