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Meanings of dilettante in anglès

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diletant

An amateur who engages in an activity without serious intentions and who pretends to have knowledge.

        diletant

        Showing frivolous or superficial interest; amateurish.

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              Examples for "dabbler"
              Examples for "dabbler"
              1
              And I am only a dabbler in that as in everything else.
              The Trumpeter Swan
              2
              Sainte Croix, who had been in Italy, was a dabbler in poisons.
              Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 2
              3
              As a dabbler in mines he had been out of his element.
              The Right of Way — Volume 03
              4
              John was a dabbler, a sort of Renaissance man, if you will.
              Wired
              5
              He's a fraud and a dabbler, and Mr. Lockhart shall have his evidence.
              The Apocalypse Codex
              1
              How often do we hear the sciolist condemned in these words:
              English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English Hist...
              2
              Now she was a pedant; and then a sciolist.
              St. Elmo
              3
              If he were a sciolist or a wrongheaded fanatic, this would be a serious evil.
              Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 1
              4
              You had better ask Mr. Bradlaugh, or some eminent popular sciolist Huxley or Spencer would do.
              'That Very Mab'
              5
              Music refuses to give up its secrets in a formula and at last eludes the sciolist with his ever-ready theorem.
              Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14 / Little J...
              Usage of dilettante in anglès
              1
              A wandering dilettante, the worst type of the pseudo-culture of our universities.
              The Half-Hearted
              2
              A scholar-dilettante, such as she had met in the Court of Bel.
              Dragonshadow
              3
              But Williams is no dilettante, he is deadly serious about his music.
              Reuters
              4
              This antiquated fussiness of the dilettante little nobleman was sickening to her.
              Vittoria — Volume 2
              5
              I would become an expert, demonstrate that I wasn't just a dilettante.
              The Irish Times
              6
              But Norham, the outsider and dilettante, was conscious of a kindled mind.
              The Case of Richard Meynell
              7
              He becomes, by degrees, first self-repressed and unemotional, then a cynical dilettante.
              Mornings in the College Chapel / Short Addresses to Young Men on...
              8
              Fortunately also, for him, he was no mere dreamer, or idle dilettante.
              Lord Arthur Savile's Crime; The Portrait of Mr. W.H., and Other ...
              9
              One imagines him, from his childhood, as a perfect connoisseur, a dilettante.
              Old and New Masters
              10
              What am I really, a little dilettante or a great big donkey?
              Venus in Furs
              11
              The products of this workplace were, however, those of the most uninspired dilettante.
              Imajica: Complete Edition
              12
              David was no dilettante; he played the center of the court.
              The gunslinger
              13
              He was a dilettante who, at bottom, held no political beliefs at all.
              11/22/63
              14
              He was a dilettante in love, as he was in art.
              Dangerous Days
              15
              A dilettante is someone who can't tell the difference between fashion and style.
              The Irish Times
              16
              The manager of the Rancho de las Sombras was no dilettante.
              Whirligigs
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