dilettantish

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His Romantic affinity for the remnants of antiquity was at once nonchalantly dilettantish and passionately committed.

From Washington Post • Jan. 14, 2023

A former electronics whiz kid, he has squandered his youth on dilettantish studies in physics and anthropology, followed by a series of botched get-rich-quick schemes.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 15, 2019

And my admiration for James Levine's conducting has been mostly of the dilettantish variety.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 11, 2018

Mr. O’Rourke spent many years as a dilettantish war correspondent, filing grouchy dispatches from places like South Korea, Nicaragua and the Gaza Strip for magazines that included Rolling Stone and The Atlantic.

From New York Times • Nov. 29, 2011

There were several dozen contenders in the contest, some quite accomplished archers, some more or less dilettantish, and quite a few whose skills put the spectators at random hazard.

From Stories from the Old Attic by Harris, Robert A.