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• s  lacking professional skill or expertise
  inexpert but conscientious efforts

• Others, like the natty dresser and the inexpert huckster, emerged from the crowd that had loitered about the plant during the morning.
• Once the plot kicks in, though, the music becomes westernized and, to these inexpert ears, neither daring in form nor instantly appealing in tune.
• Pretty and slim, she is so shy, so inexpert in marketing herself, that people don't notice her-or, if they do see her, think of Olive .

• amateurish
• amateur
• unskilled

Quotes

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• Leonid Slutsky in United Press International
  North Korea's inexpert and ineffective ballistic missile launch proves this,Slutsky said.
• David Miliband in Telegraph.co.uk
  Asked what he made of criticisms from Prof Denis Mollison, independent statistical adviser to the ISG, that his report was "unbalanced and inexpert" Sir David said this was "mudslinging" which "had not gone into the points of disagreement."
• Roberto Madrazo in New Zealand Herald
  I am very worried about the polarisation that has happened in the electoral race. It's very regrettable that an intolerant, radical right that is inexpert in matters of state is taking on a very violent left,said third-placed candidate...