bush-league
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9.1
- adjective
- /ˈbʊʃˌliɡ/
- Informal
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- Many fans left the game early because the referee made a bush-league call that affected the outcome.
Examples
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Those who prefer to look upon even our remotest ancestors as bush-league versions of ourselves have tended to side with Darwin.
Academic text (2003) -
Russia captain Andrey Arshavin has officially apologized for the team's bush-league performance at Euro 2012.
Blog text (13) -
The other half is ready to cast him into utter darkness for a couple of mistakes that seemed to me bush league.
Blog text (29) -
Existence dwarfs this bush-league contest of yours, which is just as it should be.
Fiction book (1995) -
I leaned into my own shiny squinting face and said, "Those guys are bush league."
Fiction book (1990) -
You bush-league, no-talent, flash-in-the-pan choke artist!
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As an old full professor at a large state university who was promoted to full professor at Carnegie Mellon University in 1970 after seven years on the faculty, I can say something about tenure at first-rate and bush-league (like where I am now) research universities.
Blog text (24) -
Next time I go to my apartment in the Côte d'Azur, I won't have to explain the Bush bumbling, bungling, bush-league blunder in Iraq.
Blog text (5) -
The company's bush-league customer service left many clients dissatisfied and looking for better options.
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After watching the bush-league film, I realized I could have spent my evening doing something more enjoyable.
Synonyms
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8.1
Average and not very impressive
11
4.4
Not very good and worth less than similar things
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8.9
Not professional and showing poor skill or quality
Not skilled or trained and acting in a careless, temporary way
Antonyms
How Professional
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Bush-league comes from early baseball, when small country teams played in bush meaning 'rural' leagues and so were seen as less skilled than the big professional teams. That's why calling something bush-league means it is 'second-rate' or 'not professional'.