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dilettante

adjective as in amateurish

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"But it's not a question of someone's dilettante interest. This is actually really important to advancing people's health. And so there's a lot of .. moral distress if you can't do sex differences research," Ahmed said.

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Him and all the other dilettantes who don’t know the wonders of VistaVision.

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She characterized those years in her autobiography as: “Desultory intellectual chitchat, drugs, hip aristocrats, languid dilettantes and high naughtiness. I knew I was on my path!”

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And he has often been underestimated, such as when he won a majority government in 2015 at the age of 44, despite being portrayed by his political opponents as something of a dilettante.

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Crystal does fine in this environment; he doesn’t come off as a tourist or a dilettante.

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