dilettantish

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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

Even so, you may find yourself cheering her on as she begins to jettison the trappings of a dilettantish rich kid and morphs into a thoughtful artist.

From Washington Post • Aug. 31, 2017

Adventure Mode is an arbitrary game, and there is something crudely dilettantish about it, like Marie Antoinette playacting on her private farm.

From New York Times • Dec. 3, 2015

Only, in these pretty, dilettantish cloisters there would probably be no large tickets suspended alongside of the pictorial pottery, inscribed with the monstrous words, Tripe!

From The Galaxy, May, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—May, 1877.—No. 5. by Various