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

These include the fact-deniers, the delusional dilettantes of destruction and devout worshippers of "alternate facts" who dwell in a shadowy world of misery, misinformation and malignancy.

From Salon

“A man who is rich in his adolescence is almost doomed to be a dilettante at table,” he wrote.

From New York Times

The poets have a field day, the zealots revel in the inside baseball, and even the dilettantes latch onto the pomp and circumstance.

From Seattle Times

I’m a dilettante, I kept thinking, not an expert in anything.

From Scientific American