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dilettante

adjective as in amateurish

noun as in amateur

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Example Sentences

The fired host unloads on Current TV, accusing Al Gore of being a dilettante and co-owner Joel Hyatt of blackmail.

But the director publicly clashed with Norton (calling him a “narcissistic dilettante”).

He fully admits his chronicle of Galliano's shows from 2004 to 2010 was “the work of a dilettante.”

I finally feel like I can call myself a writer now, rather than writing being just something I do on the side, as a dilettante.

This deficiency in technique must even debar him from claiming any higher signification than that of a clever dilettante.

He had dropped in in a dilettante spirit to hear the spirited debate, and the judges were greatly honored.

With increase of reading we have fallen into a fireside, dilettante culture of ideas as an intellectual pleasure.

Do not suspect that I impose on you the task of writing letters to answer my dilettante questions.

I believe this to be the test to distinguish the mere dilettante from the artist of real genius.

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On this page you'll find 45 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to dilettante, such as: green, rookie, tenderfoot, artsy fartsy, dabbling, and half-baked.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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