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He used the word "dilettantism" to describe the first race of the season, where Ocon received three separate penalties in one grand prix as a result of a series of errors by team and driver.

From BBC • May 7, 2023

This is Matt Yglesias coddling the powerful, his critics would say, and exposing a gullible dilettantism.

From Washington Post • Jan. 11, 2023

The flaw in this reasoning—aside from its historical dilettantism and cruel disregard for the lives it will destroy—is that it flatly contradicts precedent.

From Slate • Jun. 24, 2022

Reed is far from the first rock star to – with varying levels of dilettantism – write poetry outside of their song lyrics.

From The Guardian • Mar. 2, 2018

No one can charge Lockhart with dilettantism: no one certainly can charge him with feebleness of intellect, or insufficient equipment of culture, or lack of humour and wit.

From Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 by Saintsbury, George