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

Long before that, Scaife had lived the life of a dilettante.

From Salon

Critics derided him throughout as a rich dilettante seeking to buy a seat in Congress.

From Washington Post

“I strongly believe the future of cinema will be on the big screen, no matter what any Wall Street dilettante says,” Villeneuve wrote in a lengthy statement to Variety last December.

From Seattle Times