dilettante

Example Sentences

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"I like facts, I like knowledge, I like having wide interests. There's various ways of describing such a person, dilettante might be one way and polymath might be another."

From BBC

Ben thought of Charlie and Jamie less as professional money managers than as dilettantes or, as he put it, “a couple of smart guys just punting around in the markets.”

From Literature

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

From Los Angeles Times

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.

From BBC

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

From Los Angeles Times